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...best represented by its alumni. Knox was the " Siwash" of George Hamlin Fitch. Famed among other writing Knox alumni are: Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Don Marquis (The Old Soak), Eugene Field (newspaper colyumist, Poems of Childhood). Her two alumni presidents are journalists?President Britt and Dr. John Huston Finley (president 1892-99), now " editor emeritus" of the New York Times. Oldest living graduate (1859) is Ellen Browning Scripps, sister of Edward Wyllis Scripps and a prime mover in the early days of Scripps-Howard journalism. In the class of 1882 were Samuel Sidney McClure, founder of McClure Syndicate...
...Trade Commission (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.); 2) their stubborn opposition to regulation by the Federal Power Commission (TIME, March 10); 3) the flagrant lobbying against Government operation and in favor of the American Cyanamid bid by the Tennessee River Improvement Association and its onetime head. Claudius Hart Huston, now Republican National Committee Chairman (TIME, March 31). Last week wrote Mark Sullivan, veteran Washington observer: "What it [the Senate's bill] symbolizes and what gives it its political potency, stated in the extremely loose terms of politics, is 'a kick in the pants for the public utilities...
Senate Republicans last week failed to squeeze John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, into a political hole quite so uncomfortable as the one into which Senate Democrats had placed Claudius Hart Huston, chairman of the Republican National Committee (TIME, March 31). Mr. Huston had been caught lobbying on Muscle Shoals. If Mr. Raskob could be caught lobbying on Prohibition, the score between the party leaders would be even...
Meanwhile Mr. Huston clung stubbornly to his chairmanship. His friends implored him to resign for the party's good, which he vehemently refused to do. He kept far away from the White House, perhaps lest President Hoover see him, demand his resignation. In the Senate, Democrats primed their fowling pieces to blaze away at Mr. Huston when Muscle Shoals legislation, on which he had lobbied, came up there this week...
When Joseph Randolph Nutt, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, resigned his post as President of the Cleveland Union Trust Co., Washington bubbled with reports that he was preparing to step into Mr. Huston's place at the head of the committee. What gave substance to this rumor was the high favor in which Mr. Nutt is held by all factions of the G. O. P. A peerless campaign cash collector, a potent businessman of discretion and sense, Treasurer Nutt conferred long and feelingly with President Hoover a fortnight ago about Mr. Huston's predicament and the possible...