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...when both Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge had occasion to sleep in its soft beds, the Hamilton had 3,800 members. But Chicago Republicanism struck hard times two full years before the New Deal, when the late Anton J. Cermak swept clownish Republican Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson out of City Hall. Membership dropped from 2,300 in 1930 to less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller...
...Minneapolis boy who played guard for Yale and was on Walter Camp's original All-America football teams of 1889-90-91. After graduation Pudge Heffelfinger played a little professional football, coached at the University of California, went into the insurance business. Now approaching 70, still ruddy and hale, Pudge Heffelfinger is serving his fourth term as a Hennepin County (Minnesota) Commissioner, plays golf, lends his name and some of his time to the publication of two pamphlets called Heffelfinger's Football Facts and Heffelfinger's Baseball Facts. He played his last football game (nine minutes...
...variation in the monotonous pattern of Mrs. Hahn's past finally appeared. This was a hardy sexagenarian named George Heis, for whom the only consequences of a late evening snack of beer, pancakes, spinach, arsenic and croton oil, prepared by Mrs. Hahn, was partial paralysis and indigestion. Still hale enough to be wheeled into court, George Heis quavered out the most damaging testimony at her trial - for which the prosecution had picked the case of Jacob Wagner apparently at random...
...Saloon League of America into a great political machine, only to see it die with the passage of the 20th Amendment (Repeal), two of the most zealous. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell and Dr. Francis Scott McBride, last week were again building. Dr. Russell last fortnight celebrated his 82nd birthday. Hale and vigorous, he said: "We've had a setback; we're going to have a comeback!" Dr. Russell and sad-eyed Dr. McBride, superintendent of the League, last week revealed to Philadelphia -first large city to see it in action-the technique of their comeback, a "mock trial...
...more material moments of the story and the directors, who have given us too much of the ignorant and selfish woman, for the good of their loving mother theme. John Boles plays a particularly bovine husband. Anne Shirley, as the daughter, does convincingly but to what avail? Alan Hale gives distinction to the part of Miss Stanwyck's genial boy friend...