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Died. Ruth Hale, 48, writer, onetime wife of Columnist Heywood Broun, president of the Lucy Stone League; of acidosis; in Manhattan. A vigorous feminist, she managed to have her U. S. passport read "Miss Ruth Hale" instead of "Mrs. Heywood Broun," although she was married to the columnist at the time. Friends considered her subsequent amicable divorce from Mr. Broun (TIME, Jan. 29) simply a romantic gesture to establish their individualities...
Arrayed behind Josephine Aspinwall Roche of Denver was the liberal following of Senior Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan and union labor. Miss Roche, 47, divorced wife of Edward Hale Bierstadt, Manhattan author and criminologist, left Vassar in 1908, took her M. A. at Columbia along with Frances Perkins. Like Miss Perkins, she went in for social service work. After her father died in 1927, Miss Roche was left with a large share of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., second biggest coal mine in Colorado. She bought complete control, was the first operator in the State to unionize. When non-union owners tried...
...Tribune unearthed fresh evidence. In July 1912 the Senate voted to unseat Boss Lorimer. Complete collapse of the Lorimer prestige came in 1914 when he was tried on mismanagement charges growing out of a bank chain he had formed after leaving Washington. Having watched his most famed pupil, William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, climb to power and fall with Tribune help, he retired into the lumber business...
Then Maine went to the polls. With 604 out of 631 precincts reported, Governor Brann had 164,087 votes, his opponent 32,956 less. Senator Hale had 137,149, a lead of 1,155. With complete returns from the first district, Carroll Beedy was defeated by Simon M. Hamlin, Democrat and self-styled "dirt farmer...
...Frank Morgan's smooth characterization can make Father White seem anything but a feeble illustration borrowed from a domestic-advice column. The rest of the cast of There's Always Tomorrow are unpleasant nonentities, engaged in difficulties as boring as they are unreal. Worst shot: young Henry White (Alan Hale) arguing with himself...