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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July he went to Washington as representative of several Western utilities who were trying to balk the Public Utility Act. He spied a comfortable little house on 38th Street in Georgetown, promptly rented it. Disliking solitude, he "thought it would be nice for some of the boys to live with me during the hot spell." Six Representatives moved in with Lobbyist Smith: Kentucky's Cary, Idaho's Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several...
...Borah of today has not even a home in Idaho. When he goes West he is obliged to rent office quarters and live at the homes of his friends or at a hotel. Nor is he any longer the Westerner on Horseback who used to canter through Washington's Rock Creek Park. He has not ridden since he had an operation on his prostate gland at Johns Hopkins in 1933. His home is nine rooms in a large apartment building on Connecticut Avenue. Unless he borrows his wife's 1931 La Salle, he strolls to his office about...
...baker by trade. His name was Emil Ganso and he had a portfolio of drawings to show. Dealer Weyhe did not think the pictures were good enough for an immediate exhibition. Nevertheless he signed Baker Ganso to a long contract, gave him a small weekly allowance on which to live while he went on painting. It was a shrewd investment. Proudly last week Dealer Weyhe gave his protégé an exhibition, and there was not a critic to deny that Baker Ganso is now an important U. S. painter...
...suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock exchange, skipped to the West Indies to paint. Back in Paris after a few months, he had an exhibition that was a failure, moved on to a Brittany fishing village, met the equally erratic Vincent van Gogh, went to live with him at Aries...
...President is not expected to live through the night. He was shot at a theatre...