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Campaigning for Mayor of Seattle, John Francis Dore (pronounced "door") promised, if elected, to "unhinge the door" to the office so that the public could walk freely in upon him. Last week Mr. Dore, a stocky, florid criminal lawyer, got a chance to make good his promise when the citizens of Seattle chose him for Mayor over Robert H. Harlin, incumbent, by a record-breaking majority vote. Born & bred in Massachusetts, Mayor-elect Dore went West 20 years ago, learned his law by lamplight while reporting police news for Seattle newspapers. Clever, sarcastic, affable, he has made a reputation...
Known far & wide throughout the British Isles since 1805, Bostock & Wombwell's Royal Menagerie gave a farewell performance in Glasgow last fortnight and then folded its tents forever. Big, florid E. H. Bostock ran the circus. Last year he was 73. He arranged to disband the animals, then went off to South Africa to avoid seeing the menagerie broken...
Daughter of a Congregational minister. Mary Emma Woolley was the first of her sex to be graduated by Brown University (1894). At Wellesley she taught Bible history before her call to the presidency of Mount Holyoke 32 years ago. A large, florid woman, she dresses in sombre clothes, wears low-heeled shoes, believes "no lady would smoke." Once she sharply-contradicted a newshawk who dared ask about a "startling statement" she had made: "Young man. I never say startling things." In her yellow stucco house at South Hadley, Mass, she lives with Jeannette Marks, professor of English Literature, surrounded...
Approved a Cabinet spanking quietly administered to florid, genial James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions, who had planned for himself & family a glorious round-the-world junket, visiting all the dominions preliminary to next year's Imperial Conference at Ottawa...
...only remaining method for encouraging buying is to improve the product and to lower its price. Reluctantly and as a last resort some industries have decided to make long awaited technical improvements in their processes and goods. Perhaps the stolid engineer will soon occupy the throne which the florid sales man has abdicated...