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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the then Secretary of Commerce that he would run for President. Col. Brown managed the Commerce Secretary's campaign in Ohio. Last week a piece of paper fluttered down into the Senate, seeming to say "Eureka." President Hoover had at last found a Federal post appropriate for his friend, had nominated him to be Chief Counsel for the Federal Power Commission...
...year after the Geneva meeting. Ambassador Gibson, at Brussels, speaking to a friend about Mr. Shearer, said: 'Whatever criticism may have been leveled against the press of America on his account, all I can say is that the information he handed out was correct...
Clare A. Briggs, cartoonist (When a Feller Needs a Friend, The Days of Real Sport, Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling), suffering from neuritis of the optic nerve, went to Baltimore for treatment and observation at Johns Hopkins Hospital...
utility and contracting Brooklynite (self-made), great & good friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, telephoned from Paris to Manhattan for Barber Louis Arico to come and cut his hair in England (TIME, Sept. 16). Barber Arico set sail...
Leviathan. London barbers grumbled about "foreign labor." When Barber Arico reached London, he found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour...