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TIME for April 28 had this: "Engaged. Rush Dew Holt, 35, West Virginia's isolationist junior Senator from 1935 to 1941 (youngest ever elected); and Helen Froelich, 26, teacher at National Park Seminary near Washington...
...record shows that Holt lacked only about six months of being old enough to take the oath as a Senator when he was elected. John H. Eaton, a Senator from Tennessee, was born on June 18, 1790; went to the Senate on Sept. 5, 1818. This shows that he went to the Senate when he was almost two years under the constitutional age of 30. Eaton, husband of Peggy O'Neale, the 'Gorgeous Hussy,' was the youngest man ever to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate...
...West Virginia's overdressed, cadaverous Matthew Mansfield Neely quit the Senate to become Governor of the State last Jan. 12 at midnight, he exercised his new gubernatorial power to appoint as his successor his old friend Dr. Joseph Rosier, president of Fairmont State Teachers College. But Homer Adams Holt, who retired as Governor that same night, likewise claimed the right to make the appointment, naming his old friend Clarence Eugene Martin, ex-president of the American Bar Association...
Still arguing as the clock struck 12, outgoing Holt and quick-change artist Neely made their separate, solemn appointments for the Senate seat that was not vacant until the instant Neely vacated it. Long and wearily Senate legal pundits debated who should get the decision. Four months passed...
...Frances Hutchins, Pine Manor Edward F. Green Tamara Polevoy, Radcliffe Laurence K. Groves Nancy Moore, Beaver Richard F. Hunnewell K. Lawrence Bundy, Radcliffe S. Donald Russell Norma Dietz, Newton Elliott C. Lasser Phyllis Adler, Lafayette J. Drennan Lowell Martha Gallison, Brimmer-May John F. Otto, Jr. Virginia Lee Holt, Cincinnati, Ohio William P. Palmer Patricia Crehore, Radcliffe Arthur H. Phelan Mary Alexander, Mt. Holyoke Walter H. Pistole, Jr. Sydney McKenna, Radcliffe Jerome Preston, Jr. Lloyd Fursman, Beaver Albert M. Rockwood Marion Prentice, Wellesley George A. Saxton, Jr. Phyllis Hanson, Skidmore Robert S. Smith Florence Scott, Long Island, N. Y. Robert...