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...complexion of Texas seemed to be altering. In August, upon her nom- ination by the Democrats, Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson was virtually accepted by the Nation as the Governor-elect of Texas. Last week, public prints of all party affiliations published despatches to the effect that this first blush had faded; that Dr. George C. Butte, Republican nominee, was offering "more resistance than any Republican since the days of the Reconstruction." The reports held that the Republican Party of Texas is once more "a white man's affair." In the old days, only Negroes would vote...
...some time, Mrs. Wilson has been consulting with Cram & Ferguson, architects of the Cathedral, on the design of the sarcophagus. Recently, on a motor trip through New England with her brother, she called on the architects at their Boston office and accepted the final plans-a very simple marble tomb with a crusader's sword lying in relief upon its cover...
With the success of Mrs. M. A. ("Ma") Ferguson in the Texas Democratic primary, we may expect an influx of female Ma-politicians throughout the country. Middletown, N. Y., already has a "Ma" Mullaney, Democratic candidate for County Clerk. Sauk Centre and Tunerville will follow-imitations of a great female success...
...October contributed much food for the thought of parents and pedagogs on higher education in the U. S. It published speculations by one Irwin Edman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, upon the mentality, moods and the painful dilemma of "Richard Kane," undergraduate of today, brother of "Ferguson-Rex," whose portrait appeared last month in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, Sept...
...Crew. On the Olympic (White Star) - Isaac F. Marcosson, magazine writer; Glenn H. Curtiss, airplane manufacturer; James Speyer, Manhattan banker; Elsie Janis, vaudeville actress; Cyril Maude, English actor. On the Rotterdam (Holland-America)-Medill McCormick, senior U. S. Senator from Illinois; Dr. George V. Butte, Republican opponent of "Ala" Ferguson for Governor of Texas. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Olympic (White Star)-Viscount Wimborne, onetime Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (1915-18), the principal financial backer of the British In- ternational Polo Team. On the Mauretania...