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...campaign in Illinois to be the first woman elected to the U. S. Senate, Republican Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick last week found herself confronted by three adversaries instead of one. They were: 1) James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis, Democratic Senatorial nominee; 2) Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, independent dry candidate; 3) the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures chairmanned by North Dakota's 37-year-old Senator Gerald Prentice Nye. Adversary No. 3 furnished the week's melodramatics...
After Mrs. McCormick had won the Republican nomination in last April's primary, she filed with the Senate committee what she claimed to be the most complete and accurate statement of campaign expenditures ever made by a candidate. Her listed spendings: $252,000. Subsequently it was discovered that some $67,000 had also been spent in her behalf, bringing the total up to $319,000. The Senate committee, suspicious of such outlay, began its own investigation. While they investigated, Mrs. McCormick's office at Byron, Ill. was broken open and her private files ransacked. A woman was found...
...McCormick made no bones about what she had done. Said she: "Senator Nye wants to know who did it. I did it. I am still doing it. . . . Prosecution became persecution. . . . I have acted in self-defense. If Senator Nye is indignant, so am I. . . . What is Senator Nye going to do about...
Chairman Nye departed on a vacation to Wisconsin. Nominee McCormick took to the stump with the claim that the Slush Fund Committee episode had won her 50,000 Illinois votes. Whether it had or not, it certainly won her the sympathy of Citizen Calvin Coolidge who said in one of his syndicated articles...
Smaller Universe. Much starlight is absorbed in space before it reaches the earth. Dr. Piet Van de Kamp, Leander McCormick Observatory, and Dr. Robert Julius Trumpler, Lick Observatory, measured the absorption, concluded that astronomers who have based their measurements of star distances on the assumption that space does not interfere with light, may have overestimated the size of the universe. Cosmic dust, meteors and free-electrons-in-space are possible absorbers of starlight...