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...Exeter Academy), Hubert S. Howe (Columbia neurologist), William Lowe Bryan (President of Indiana University). During this ceremony each boy was permitted to step up to a microphone and speak his name and State. There was a banquet at which they formally met last year's winner, Wilber Brotherton Huston of Olympia, Wash., M. I. T. sophomore. There was also a dance to which the Edisons invited 52 of New Jersey's nicest young ladies. "Alabama" picked out the one he wanted from a newspaper picture the day before...
...days later the "extremely bright boys" filed into a room in the Edison plant, sat down at broad desks, began frowning and screwing up their mouths over the questionnaires. Sophomore Huston looked over the test, appraised it as no harder than last year's, promised to try his hand at it later, settled down to read a tabloid newspaper...
...Chairman Huston, whose temporary use of Muscle Shoals lobbying funds for his stockmarket account caused loud demands for his resignation, had promised a statement when the Senate adjourned (TiME, July 21). When the Senate session did end, Mr. Huston was nowhere to be found. President Hoover despatched scouts in search of him. James Francis Burke, general counsel of the National Committee and Joseph Randolph Nutt, its treasurer, hurried to New York on a tip, cornered Mr. Huston at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, presented a White House ultimatum, sped back to Washington to report to the President. Next day Mr. Huston...
Selected to replace Mr. Huston as party chairman, at least temporarily, was smallish, solemn, fuss-budgety Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, who cancelled steamship bookings for a European holiday to take over his new political duties. In imitation of the present Democratic setup, in which National Chairman Raskob yields the spotlight to Executive Committee Chairman Jouett Shouse, the Republicans decided to have, in addition to their party chief, an active committee manager to do the real political work. For this new professional post, with $15,000 salary, Robert H. Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department...
...characterized Western G. O. P. Senators as "sons of the wild jackass"; 2) in opposing the London Naval Treaty he had attacked President Hoover; 3) he had tried to make Otto Hermann Kahn the committee treasurer in defiance of other members; 4) he had supported Chairman Huston in his long struggle against the dominant wing...