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...ousted; in Tennessee, Senator McKellar. In Missouri, Democrat Charles M. Hay, slated to fill the seat of fierce retiring-Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed, might lose to Republican R. C. Patterson. In New York, Senator Dr. Royal S. Copeland (red carnation in buttonhole) might be ousted by Nominee the Hon. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Middleton Cox, the Democratic nominee of eight years ago, went to the Border to counteract the big Republican push there. At Nashville, Tenn., he flayed the inconsistencies of loud-spoken Senator Borah and read long passages from Borah speeches in the Senate flaying Hoover in 1919. He described the Hon. Mr. Borah as a "political adventurer who, in some fashion or other has been under every political flag that has flown in the breeze from the days of free silver until...
...titled Spey fisher-women the Duchess of York ranks well; but she is admittedly surpassed by Super-Fishermaiden Miss Rachel Spender-Clay, a niece of Viscount & Viscountess Astor. During the week Miss Spender-Clay distinguished herself still further by announcing her engagement to the Duchess' youngest brother, the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, probably the worst salmon fisherman in his distinguished family...
Tennessee's senior Senator, the loquacious, blarneying Hon. Kenneth D. McKellar...
Bench. In 1921, a message pencilled on rough copy paper and signed "Gus," reached the Hon. William Howard Taft in Canada. It was from the late Gustave J. Karger, oldtime correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. "Gus" reported that President Harding had just decided "to appoint Big Bill Chief Justice." Back to Washington he went, now far removed from the irrational bickerings of "practical men." Looking down from the High Bench, he beheld the "Best Minds" of the Harding era on the job, many of them from his native Ohio. When the Oil Scandals broke, there were no party ties...