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...personal messages to each and every member of the 72nd Congress with this request: "If you are favorable to the proposal, it would undoubtedly aid in the negotiations now in progress if you could inform me thereof." The White House was deluged with responses, practically all favorable. Notable exception: Hiram Johnson of California, where Hearstpapers are strong...
...Died. Hiram Royal Mallinson, 59, president of H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc. (silks), member of the board of governors of the Silk Association of America; of heart disease; in Manhattan, upon being sued for $1,000,000 by his son-in-law, one Eugene V. Bowen. He claims the Mallinsons caused his wife, Lorna Mallinson Bowen, to kill herself three years ago by disparaging her marriage and demanding a divorce...
...Scientific Monthly's invitation to expound the Universe to Manhattanites the evening before be sails back to England.* Between lectures the Jeanses plan a visit with Lady Jeans's mother, Mrs. Annie Tiffany Mitchell of New London. Fellow guests at the Mitchell home will be Senator & Mrs. Hiram Bingham of New Haven. Senator Bingham was a preceptor in history and and politics at Princeton when when Sir James James was was professor of applied mathematics there. Lady Jeans and Mrs. Bingham are are sisters...
...article's least complimentary part was gently ironic: "Thus did he add to the gayety of nations, the enlightenment of the people, and win the nomination." Its summary: "There was something of Cole Blease in him, and 'Cotton Tom Heflin, Al Smith and Hiram Johnson. . . . He was a force to be reckoned with." Above a reproduction of the original Tribune galley-proof, "Big Bill's" campaign managers wrote: "This biography . . . undoubtedly represents what the Tribune really thinks about Thompson. It was willing to tell the truth if he were dead...
...open air. Over 25,000 flower-lovers went there the opening day. The gardens and flowers were provided not only by garden clubs and nurserymen but by some of the greatest names in U. S. finance: John Pierpont Morgan, Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, George Fisher Baker, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Hiram Edward Manville, Otto Hermann Kahn...