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...Tytus, its vice president, P. A. Coen and the mine's superintendent, Walter Hayden, were all down there, a mile and a half along the rocky channels from the shaft-entrance, where they had gone to show a party of guests a new ventilating fan. Assistant Superintendent Peter McKinley took charge, issued 20 gasmasks to volunteers, sent them down. They came back. The gas had penetrated their masks. Out along the dirt road leading from the nearby town of Athens came the whistles and bells of ambulances, police cars, special State mine-relief cars which had been stationed throughout...
Born: on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, Nov. 27, 1880. Start in life: prosecutor. Career: Son of a well-to-do farmer who moved into Canton to take a local Treasury job when William McKinley became President, he received a public school education, attended Ohio State University, studied law at Western Reserve University. With a natural flair for politics he got a job as assistant prosecutor of Stark County but gave it up after three years to practice privately. Ambitious, he ran for the House of Representatives when 32, was beaten; got himself elected two years later, re-elected...
...Congress: He lives at the expensive but not very fashionable Carlton Hotel on 16th St., often walks the two miles to the Capitol. He motors long distances, goes frequently to the cinema. In Canton, his home, political sentimentalists liken him to McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. He is a serious hard-working campaigner. In his current campaign he is being assailed by Negroes for his Parker vote, by Wets who favor his Wet opponent, Democratic Nominee Robert Johns Bulkley. Hard to hold is the Senate seat he now occupies. Frank Bartlette Willis died...
...Dalles, Ore., Louis Comini, granite worker, awaited the birth of Theodore Roosevelt Comini to add to his other sons-Leo McKinley. Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge Comini. "But right along with Theodore Roosevelt Comini was little Mussolini Comini," said Louis Comini later...
...last sensational campaign speech in New York by a Secretary of State occurred in 1906 when Elihu Root, speaking for President Roosevelt, charged that the agitation for Cuban independence in the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst, that year's Democratic gubernatorial nominee, had been largely responsible for President McKinley's assassination...