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...months ago. Born. To Princess Ileana of Rumania, sister of King Carol; and Archduke Anton of Habsburg; a son; in Vienna. Name: Stephan. Married. Walter Joseph Smith, 22, youngest son of Alfred Emanuel Smith; and one Florence Elizabeth Watson, 22, of Schenectady, N. Y.; in Schenectady. Married. Charles Sumner Fess, 35, son of Ohio's Senator Simeon Davison Fess; and one Myrtle Esther Kirkpatrick, 33, of Washington, D. C.; in Rockville, Md. Married. John Gilbert, 35, film actor; and Virginia Helen Briggs (Virginia Bruce), 21, film actress; in Hollywood. His three earlier wives: Olivia Burwell, Leatrice Joy, Ina Claire...
...procession. Banker William H. Crocker uprooted the State's placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into line. Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang manfully. Chairman Snell rapped for order, smiled when he did not get it, got it not long...
...noisemaking gadget. High above the rostrum a flag fell from the illuminated portrait of the President. Delegate Louis B. Mayer of California, partner in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was there in person to project ghostly slides of President Hoover on screens at each end of the hall. Senator Fess. again cackling with joy, produced a huge Hoover portrait and held it up over his head on the platform. One George English of Alexandria, Va., wearing a Delaware dele gate's badge and intoxicated with joy, went into action as floor cheerleader...
Cogs. Congressional duties in Washington were expected to reduce materially the presence of Republican Senators and Representatives at the Chicago meeting. A few, because they were big cogs, were obliged to be on hand. Others might play hooky from the Capitol. Thus Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio had to attend as chairman of the Republican National Committee and gavel the assembly to order at 10 a. m. the first morning. Then he would turn the presiding office over to Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa who as temporary chairman would sound the party's keynote. Next chunky, heavy...
...Announced was the early retirement of Maurice Maschke, Cleveland's boss, as Ohio's member of the Republican National Committee. He will be replaced by Postmaster General Brown of Toledo, who, after the Convention renominates President Hoover, is slated to supplant Senator Fess as G. O. P. chairman and manage the national campaign...