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Instigator of the I. C. C. decision is Charles Delahunt Mahaffie, 47. Serving his first year on the Commission, he plotted the pool plan. When the McNamara brothers were accused of dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building in 1910, Commissioner Mahaffie was a struggling young lawyer with no clients. He caught the eye of Clarence Darrow, who has saved many a rascal's neck, was hired as Lawyer Darrow's assistant for $20 a day. Princeton made Struggler Mahaffie an instructor in jurisprudence. Woodrow Wilson made him solicitor to the Department of the Interior. Warren Gamaliel Harding made...
HARVARD COLBY McCaffery, c.f. r.f., McNamara McGrath, s.s. 3b., Deetjen Ticknor, l.f. c., Hedderics Rex, r.f. 2b., Ferguson DesRoches, 3b. s.s., Davon Mays, 2b lb., Plummer Wood, lb., p., Roberts Sheldon, c. l.f., Farhnam MacHale or Page, p. c.f., Pearson...
Today at 4 o'clock the Junior University baseball team will open its season with St. John's Preparatory School at Soldiers Field. Tom McNamara, a former Princeton athlete, is the coach of St. John's and has developed strong baseball teams...
...students at flying schools of Roosevelt Field and Curtiss Airport, L. I. last fortnight included: John J. McNamara, Manhattan streetcar motorman; Abraham Walter Lafferty, onetime Congressman from Oregon; Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian Chief, one-time cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest...
...polite tradition, they sniffed each cup vigorously, filled their mouths full, then spewed into large brass cuspidors. No hostess was present to pour tea from the hundred assembled samples, nor was there any host except the U. S. Government. The nearest to such a functionary was, however, John Joseph McNamara, Chairman of the Board and a tea sampler for 14 years. Sitting first, he gathered other tasters around him in this order: Robert A. Lewis, Boston; Charles F. Hutchinson, Manhattan; A. P. Irwin, Philadelphia; Edward Bransten, San Francisco; Arthur T. Hellyer, Chicago; J. J. Shaw, Seattle...