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Then Publisher Vanderbilt told his Philadelphia guests something that he had concealed from re- porters in New York. Not only had he been assured by his lawyers (Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Dudley Field Malone) that progress was being made in the reconstruction of his wealth; not only might he go to court to obtain his patrimony, which is withheld because his father, Cornelius III, "has old fashioned ideas about the newspaper field"; not only was he "wiser for a bad experiment"-chiefly as touched the selection of lieutenants-and determined to conduct his affairs more astutely in the future...
Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th Century Manhattan Republican Boss Roscoe Conkling? A namesake of Roscoe's voter-bludgeoning henchman, Thomas C. Platt?" In a jazzed age no news hound delved through the reference "morgue" of his paper to turn up the great story of Conkling, Platt, Garfield and James G. Blaine. But for the tangled interplay of their rapier politics Garfield would never have been President, nor would the name of Blaine awaken potent memories. Yet, instead of recalling to their readers the late and great, many an editor slapped down amid his scareheads a (faked) picture...
...lieutenant, Jack Rubenstein, celebrated by getting out of the Garfield (N. J.) jail with a battered face, swollen right eye, bruised back and broken leg. "He didn't get them here," said Chief of Police Forss. It was Rubenstein's tenth arrest as a result of his strike activities...
Within the last fortnight, the air around Garfield has been surcharged with the noise of bombs. The homes of the strike breakers are the chief objects of attack, although Weisbord denies any connection of his men with this business. Mayor Burke of Garfield intends to take drastic steps: "No self-respecting city can permit any continuance of the violence which has been perpetrated on some of our citizens...
...John Thomas Scopes, convicted last summer and fined $100 for teaching evolution, contrary to the state law, in a public school at Dayton, Tenn. For Mr. Scopes appeared John T. Neal, onetime head of the state law school, Charles Strong representing the Unitarian Laymen's League, Arthur Garfield Hays for the Civil Liberties Union, Henry Colton on behalf of the Tennessee Academy of Science. They argued that the law was unconstitutional, that evolution and Christianity are not mutually exclusive...