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...Weasels; 3 Wins. The G. O. P. has won three national elections straight by sidestepping Prohibition as an issue. Each time the party platform carried a strong law enforcement declaration but weaseled on the 18th Amendment. Warren Gamaliel Harding patted the Drys on the back and took drinks in the White House. Calvin Coolidge did not drink in office but otherwise lacked deep convictions on Prohibition. He felt that it was smart politics to stand in well with the professional Drys because their voting strength was better organized and more effective than the scattered Wets...
Retired. George H. Van Fleet, 68, closest business associate of the late Warren Gamaliel Harding, editor of the Marion Star during Harding's terms as Senator and President. The Star is now owned by Ohio's Brush-Moore Newspapers...
WITH the recent deaths of Lytton Strachey and Gamaliel Bradford, Andre Maurois remains as the most prominent living biographer. (Apologies to Mr. Philip Guedalla who, fortunately or unfortunately, has not been accorded notice equal to Mr. Maurois). The members of this trio had much in common: they were the leaders in the art of "modern biography" and together they stood far aloof from all their cheap, novelizing imitators. Mr. Maurois began writing biography much later than either of his late contemporaries and he probably owes much to both of them. But he has a purpose and a method...
...Died. Gamaliel Bradford, 68, biographer (Damaged Souls, Darwin, The Quick & The Dead); after lingering illness; in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Eighth in lineal descent from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, he termed himself a "psychographer." Critics called him "the U. S. Lytton Strachey," rated him less urbane and epigrammatic but more profound. An essayist and editorialist (for the Boston Herald), he said: "My biographical work is laborious and hard. . . . But plays and novels! It's easy and fun to write them. . . . That's what . . . I've done year after year without much encouragement." Biographer Bradford, though sickly...
THIS volume, issued shortly before his death, is probably the last which may be expected from the late Gamaliel Bradford. Due to his constant illness, he worked very slowly, and it is unlikely that more than a few short sketches will be added to his published works. Happily the biographical studies included in "Saints and Sinners" are a fitting memorial to a writer who was exceptional in the breadth and sympathy of his interests...