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...politics are many able young college-trained men. Not a few inherit their politics from famed kinfolk. Conspicuous is David Sinton Ingalls, 33, Yale 1920, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, grandnephew of the late William Howard Taft, who is now seeking to become Governor of Ohio. Robert Marion ("Bob") LaFollette, 37, fills his late father's seat in the Senate. He studied at the University of Wisconsin as did his brother Philip Fox LaFollette, 35, Governor of Wisconsin. Paul John Kvale, 36, who studied at the University of Chicago, Luther College and the University of Minnesota, succeeded...
Ingalls for Governor? What was generally assumed to be a preliminary move in the Hoover campaign occurred last week when in Washington Assistant Secretary of the Navy David Sinton Ingalls, Taft grandnephew and War ace, announced his intention to run for Governor of Ohio. He will, with the backing of National Committeeman Maurice Maschke and the Cleveland machine, seek the Republican nomination in the May primaries against two or more strong rivals. If successful there, he will go into the November election against popular Democratic Governor George White. President Hoover gave the Ingalls candidacy his blessing, on the theory that...
Died. General Albert Taylor Goodwyn, 88, onetime (1928-29) Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, husband of U. S. President John Tyler's granddaughter Priscilla Cooper Tyler, grandnephew of William Wyatt Bibb, first Governor of Alabama; in Birmingham...
Married. William A. Rockefeller, 36, Greenwich (Conn.) banker, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller; and a Mrs. Mary Ball Boyer, 36, interior decorator; in Detroit, Mich...
Married. John Sterling Rockefeller, Manhattan bank employe, grandson of the late President James Alexander Stillman of National City Bank, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller; and Paula Watjen, daughter of Alexander W. Watjen, representative of Guaranty Trust Co. for Central Europe; in Manhattan...