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...only of the 18 accomplished a "clean performance." This was Major Harry D. Chamberlain who is the son of an Army man; an instructor in the Fort Riley, Kan., military school; about 35; nervous when he is not sitting on a horse. On Dick Waring he took every fence, the little one at the start and the long jump near the the end, without knocking down or touching...
Charles Curtis voted in Topeka, Kan. Then he went and stood at the grave of his wife. She had died four years too soon. He learned of the landslide on awaking aboard a train near Chicago. From President Coolidge he received a quirky little message: "... I regret that the country will not also have your distinguished services as a Senator...
...bids for the Salt Creek contract were supposed to close, Oilman Sinclair was on a train returning from a visit to the Fall ranch in New Mexico. It was nine hours after the legal time was up when Oilman Sinclair sent in his bid, by telegram from Pratt, Kan. Simultaneously, Fall wired Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edward Clingan Finney not to be too formal about the bids. The belated Sinclair bid was accordingly admitted. When Fall returned to Washington he threw out twelve other bids and awarded the contract to Sinclair. It was a contract to extract oil from...
...Tammany Hall. His name on the list brought mingled memories: of Tammany iniquities; of the family fight for Boss Croker's $5,000,000 estate; of a Croker son who killed himself racing automobiles; of another son who died from smoking opium, on a train, near Emporia, Kan.; of a Croker daughter who married an Italian count and another who married a riding master; of Boss Croker's second wife, a Cherokee princess; of the Croker race horses, bulldogs and Irish estate. Boss Croker set Richard Croker Jr. up in business with $150,000 and gave his other...
...Cartoonist Kirby's "You Done Good, Kid" appeared after Nominee Smith had answered the attack on his legislative record made by Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette. Editor White retracted the more disgraceful part of his charges. The G. O. P. at no time took official credit or responsibility for the White work. Many another cartoon was drawn about this episode. In his retraction, issued just before sailing to Europe, Editor White said : "I'm throwing no mud at. Governor Smith." A picture at once suggested itself and was drawn ? a little man on the stern...