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...then by states, finally in an intersectional series between winners from the East and West. Wee Willie McLean's team, Western winner this year, is composed entirely of professionals who play to advertise the Stix, Baer & Fuller Department Store of St. Louis. Five of the men on it-McNab, McPherson, Gonsalves, Nilsen, Watson-used to play for Fall River; McLean played for the Chicago Bricklayers two years ago. The New York Americans are a very different sort of organization. They are largely owned & operated by Erno Schwarcz, Manhattan broker, who coaches the team, captains it, plays outside right forward...
Seventeenth and last speaker was booming John McNab of California, who reminded the audience that he had placed the name of Hoover before the 1928 convention (voice from gallery: "That's no credit to you!"). Ending the fight, he put the matter bluntly: "Do you want to support the President in this crisis? I appeal to you to vote for this majority report...
...gaudy outsider to bring justice into the golden State. If he decided not to pardon him, the same people could say that the Governor had been frightened out of seeing justice done because of the bitter feeling his New York crony had stirred up. Bolstered with counsel, including John McNab, "The Man Who Nominated Hoover in 1928," California's chief executive awaited with little satisfaction the hour of the hearing...
...York "Yankees": the national soccer championship, with a ten-man team (Capt. Alex McNab fractured his arm the day before in an exhibition game); from the Chicago "Bricklayers"; 2 to 0, in Chicago...
...Department of Justice grew from the smallest to the largest. President Hoover contemplates making it even larger by adding to its prosecution of dry cases the major job, now performed by the Treasury, of actual field enforcement of the Volstead Act. Lately the President set his friend, John L. McNab, to plotting out a system whereby this transfer and consolidation within the Department of Justice may be effected (TIME, Oct. 14). If and when such a plan becomes operative, Mr. Youngquist will be No. 1 U. S. Prohibitor, catching leggers with one hand, punishing them with the other...