Word: locher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Bartlette Willis, who used to grease the inside of his throat with vaseline before making a campaign speech, was re-elected to the seat for a term expiring in 1933. He died in 1928. Appointed was Cyrus Locher. Ohio voters rejected him in 1928. He, too, is now dead. Mr. Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally...
Invitations to compete were extended to several men engaged in different sorts of artistry. These included Gustave Jen sen (silversmith), William Zorach (sculptor), Robert Locher (interior decorator), Edward Steichen (photographer), Walter Teague (commercial artist) ; Buk Ulreich (designer...
...were winners-Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati (Republican) and U. S. Representative Martin L. Davey* of Kent (Democrat). Both the League's candidates for the seat of its dead champion, Senator Willis, came out ahead-U.S. Representative Theodore Elijah Burton of Cleveland (Republican) and U.S. Senator Cyrus Locher of Cleveland (Democrat). But the Wet-Dry issue was confused. The victorious Messrs. Davey and Burton are famed votegetters in their own right. And the G. O. P. vote was no index to Hooverism since it contained a town-v.-country aftermath of the Hoover-Willis fight for Ohio...
...politicians for his job. It aroused a Senate investigation of how Federal patronage is dispensed in the South, an investigation which got afoot last week under the leadership of Iowa's Brookhart. Georgia's George was on the committee, too, and Ohio's newly-seated Locher...
...Watched Cyrus Locher, Ohio Democrat sworn in to succeed the late Frank Bartlette Willis, Republican. (On his third day in the Senate, Senator Locher was invited to preside in the absence of Vice President Dawes. He acquitted himself ably as a Parliamentarian, in the little he had to do during one of Senator Blease's interminable speeches...