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Another Congressional secretary received a substantial promotion last week, when Representative Fiorello* H. La Guardia of Manhattan took Miss Marie M. Fisher, his secretary for 14 years, unto him as second wife. Congressman O. J. Kvale of Minnesota, a Lutheran minister, performed the service and the marriage was formally announced on the House floor. Two days later Representative La Guardia, swart and peppery, impeached a Federal judge...
...Green of Iowa, Mr. Luce of Massachusetts, Mr. Tincher of Kansas rallied round Mr. Burton; but the majority of votes which rescued the President came from unfamiliar sources: 62 Democrats (from Mr. Jacobstein to Mr. Swank); the lone Socialist, Mr. Berger; the entire Farmer-Laborite group, Messrs. Carss, Kvale, Wefald; Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit, Mr. La Guardia of New York, who is now trying to bait Secretary Kellogg. It was a wave of pacifism rather than any great love of President Coolidge which brought these votes into the fold...
...could point to mistakes without insinuating that it is trying to mislead, but that it is subject to ordinary human limitations. Permit me to call attention to a rather peculiar pronunciation of the name of Congressman O. J. Kvale as given in TIME, March 29, p. 10. Unless some transformation has taken place since coming to Washington, I think the gentleman would quite readily and naturally answer to the name, if pronounced Qua'-le. I have known him for so many years, boy and man, that I think I can vouch for the accuracy of this...
...that if one candidate abuses his rival and lies about him to the electorate, he can be denied his nomination even if successful in the primaries. Volstead went to court. At the trial Laura testified that her father was "a good Christian man, a good father." The court disqualified Kvale. The local Republican Committee then renominated Volstead and he was reelected...
...however, Kvale ran again as an Independent, and whether Volstead had been irreparably injured by the charge of "atheist" or whether he had simply lost his hold on Granite Falls, he was defeated...