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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Post, with many other good G. O. Papers, was "disappointed" in Mr. Hoover because, under ill-disguised pressure from the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan, he had rejected William Joseph Donovan, a prize Hooverite but a Roman Catholic and a Wet. Before the eager Donovan eye were juggled first the Attorney-Generalship, then the War portfolio. Mr. Hoover finally had to withdraw both. The best he could offer his good friend was the Governor-Generalship of the Philippines, which Col. Donovan refused, leaving Mr. Hoover to wonder if he had been disloyal to an old friend...
Last week it was said that Exile Trotsky had contracted pneumonia, summoned a specialist from Berlin. In describing how Stalin was able to seize supreme power, Trotsky declares that, during Lenin's last and protracted illnesses, the present dictator organized a veritable camarilla of self-seekers who conspired secretly against Trotsky (Lenin's logical successor) and took advantage of the fact that Trotsky himself was often ill to foment against him an opposition so strong that when Lenin died Oppositionist Stalin was able gradually to oust Trotskyists from their posts and finally to seize the government...
...Players. The original Flonzaley players were Adolfo Betti and Alfred Pochon, violin player; Iwan d'Archambeau, 'cellist; Ugo Ara, violinist. The first three are in the Quartet today but Ara left to join the Italian army in 1917. Ill health prevented his return and Louis Bailly, now of the Curtis Institute, succeeded him until 1924. Then Felicien d'Archambeau, brother of Cellist Iwan, played for a season and since then Nicholas Moldavan. The Quartet now stands with Betti, an Italian; Pochon, a Swiss; d'Archambeau, a Belgian; Moldavan, a Russian. Yet so dominated are they...
...Porter '88, who performed the operation, announced last evening that Dean Briggs was suffering no ill effects and was resting comfortably. According to Dr. Porter, the nature of Dean Briggs' illness was considered serious and he was taken to Phillips House the day before yesterday preparatory to operating. The operation, Dr. Porter said, revealed that the condition of Dean Briggs was not so serious as had been supposed...
From Georgia to New England is a long step, but President Pelley was stepping even farther than that. He was born in 1878 at Anna, Ill. He began railroading as Illinois Central station clerk at Anna (1899). There followed many years, many promotions, until, in 1924, he became vice president in charge of operations. In 1926 he left the Illinois Central to become president of the Central of Georgia?an Illinois Central subsidiary. No salary statement was given out by the New Haven. It is believed that Mr. Pelley received $40,000 a year as head of the Georgia road...