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Thus began one of the most famed feuds in the Democratic Party. In 1922 Governor Smith flatly refused Tammany's request to let Mr. Hearst run for U. S. Senator on the same ticket with him. In 1925 Governor Smith helped James John ("Jimmy") Walker take the mayoralty of New York City away from Mr. Hearst's favorite, John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan. Said Mr. Hearst then: "I supported Smith three times and that was three times too many." Next year he ditched the Democratic ticket to back rich, reactionary, Republican Ogden Mills unsuccessfully against Governor Smith. In 1928 Presidential...
...modern small towns provided an incongruous and unromantic background. Author Kantor now returns to the mood and manner of The Jaybird with a slight, short novel in which a Missouri legend of a wonderful foxhound serves as the frail basis for a story involving revenge, murder and a family feud...
...have been battling the Presbyterian Church, due to their affiliation with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Too bad. that the Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church gave Dr. Buswell the break they did. He should have gotten the verdict handed to Dr. Machen-suspension. Then our personal feud would have stood: 1-to-1. You see, Dr. Buswell had me suspended, without even giving me a hearing (he was in a hurry to catch a train) just because they discovered I smoked a pipe in my own apartment, while attending Wheaton College...
...wounded, he developed his lifelong fear of lynching, surrendered to the authorities, who let him escape. Cutting his way out of jail in broad daylight, he wrote that the guards told him when to work, "as the saw made a big fuss." Free, he plunged into the Sutton-Taylor feud, killed Sheriff Jack Helms, enjoyed a period of relative peace and prosperity until he killed Deputy Sheriff Charlie Webb, whose friends, resenting it, lynched Hardin's brother, two cousins, and a friend. Escaping to Florida, Hardin was captured by a Texas Ranger who traced him through his wife...
...inadvertently cleared by the White House before the testy little Virginian saw a copy. Moreover, the Eccles Bill proposed to change the whole theory of the Federal Reserve Act, toward which, as its jealous father, Carter Glass had a distinctly possessive attitude. If there really was a Glass-Eccles feud, as some newspapers made out, the Banking Bill promised fireworks...