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Chairman Sanders is no Mark Hanna. His campaign direction to date has been remote and uncertain. For historical comfort last week he went back to 1880 when Maine elected a Democratic Governor in September and the nation a Republican President (Garfield) in November. From Chicago he telegraphed the President...
Never in the history of motorboat races for the Harmsworth Cup (put up by the late Lord Northcliffe in 1903) has there been such hue & cry as there was last year about Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood's "Yankee trick." Wood in his Miss America IX crossed the starting line ahead of the gun for the second heat, thus prompting his rival, Kaye Don, who had won the first heat with Miss England II, to do likewise. Miss America IX and Miss England II were disqualified. A slower boat than either, driven by Gar Wood's brother George, circled...
...Marine Band played dirges at the funerals of Harrison, Taylor and Lincoln; accompanied Garfield's body to Cleveland; played "Lead Kindly Light" and "Nearer My God To Thee" at McKinley's funeral, and "Lead Kindly Light" again at Harding...
Died. James Francis Burke, 64, general counsel of the Republican National Committee, onetime (1905-15) U. S. Representative from the 31st Pennsylvania District (Pittsburgh), close friend and adviser of President Hoover; of coronary thrombosis following dilation of the heart; in Garfield Hospital, Washington, whither he was sent by Dr. Joel Thompson Boone after his illness during a White House conference had become apparent to President Hoover. Counsel Burke was elected secretary of the Republican National Committee in 1892 at 25, youngest man ever to hold the post...
...Near the spot President Garfield was assassinated. *Federal troops were used to put down the "whiskey rebellion" in Pennsylvania (1794), maintain order in "bleeding" Kansas (1856-57) break the Pullman strike in Chicago (1894) and the coal strike in West Virginia (1921). *Last week Reds were accused of starting bank runs in the Mid-west...