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...Perry Howard of Mississippi, Roscoe Conkling Simmons of Illinois and Robert R. Church of Memphis, Tenn., oldtimers who for years have been accustomed to make a four-year living from the profits of running each Republican campaign. Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, avoiding the worst pitfalls, chose Rev. Mr. Lacey Kirk Williams, parson of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago and president of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Co.. to head the Republican Negro drive in the West. Unlike most of the other important Negroes in the 1936 campaign, who have more white blood in them than black...
...independent oil producer, he owns half interest in a 7,360-acre farm near Chautauqua. Governor Landon has other hallmarks of eligibility. After a series of ups & downs, he seems to have his state's G. O. P. well in hand. He has acquired a Colonel House, one Lacey Haynes, manager of the Kansas bureau of the Kansas City Star, who is political pals with half the State and appears to be so full of secrets that he whispers most of the time. He likes football and baseball, is an Elk, has a wife who collects Westward Ho glass...
...pound class: William A. Gosline 3rd. (H) defeated Lacey (E), by decision. Time...
...Lacey learned what had happened, nodded, called for soap flakes and ammonia. These he calmly poured into the nitroglycerin, announced that the explosive was "neutralized." Under his supervision the mixture was carried outside and poured down a sewer...
...dozen peace officers and firemen tried to think. Assistant Fire Chief James Bolz had an idea. He telephoned to nearby California Institute of Technology, pleaded for an explosives expert. In a few minutes a lone automobile slid to a stop at the scene. Out stepped Professor William Noble Lacey, the brisk embodiment of Science, to the rescue...