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Jackass. Disgruntled at their failure to win any tariff victories, Republican troopers took to sticking out their tongues at the enemy, calling them naughty names. First Major-General Reed of Pennsylvania referred to western senators as "worse than Communists." Then Lobbyist Grundy. also of Pennsylvania, called them representatives of "backward commonwealths" (TIME, Nov. 11). Last week came the crowning insult from the lips of swashbuckling General George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire. President Pro Tempore of the Senate...
...When I got down there, the first fellow that greeted me was Otto Kahn [Kuhn, Loeb & Co.]. ... I didn't recognize him as a particular friend of Norris and La Follette. . . . I looked around at that bunch and it seemed to me there was something doing and in a little while?this occurred in the reception room?I remember the distinguished so-called Senator-elect Vare was there?after a while someone lifted up a curtain on a table or a bookcase or something...
...when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then Assistant Attorney-General, sent fake convicts to Atlanta and Leavenworth to snoop. She demanded the resignation of Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken, reticent, diligently eludes publicity. But Mrs. Willebrandt, busily though she snooped, got nothing done about cattle-herding in the Federal prisons...
...first day the celebrating Nebraskans paraded. Governor Arthur J. Weaver led off. Behind him came a history: Francisco Vasquez Coronado. who in 1541, looking for El Dorado, discovered Nebraska; Indians, led by Crow Chief Max Big Man; prairie schooners; oxcarts; stage coaches; a Mormon handcart which had been trundled across Nebraska by foot-sore Mormons So years before. In a stage coach rode the original "Deadwood Dick" Clark, now 83, proudly wearing his many-notched horse pistol, and the original "Poker Alice" Tubbs, now 76. smoking her big black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations...
Indianapolis. The Republican party, hard-ridden by the Ku Klux Klan, stumbled and fell in defeat as for the first time in 16 years the city chose a Democratic mayor, Reginald Sullivan. In similar disrepute was the Klan-Republican alliance in many another Indiana municipality, including Senator James Eli Watson's own Rushville where Republicans were turned out, Democrats turned into office...