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Absentees. The continued session of Congress and a general lack of interest kept many a familiar G. O. Politician away from Chicago. Senators Borah. Watson and Smoot, prime figures at Kansas City in 1928, were absent. Andrew William Mellon was at his London post. Claudius Huston who led the Hoover "Boy Scouts" four years ago> could not be found around the Stadium. Allan Hoover, a spectator at his father's first nomination, missed his renomination...
...President Arthur Villiers Morton of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia; President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania; Director Edward Ray Weidlein of Mellon Institute of Industrial Research: one-time Senator George Wharton Pepper from Washington. They, with Mr. Donner. manage the new foundation...
Consolidation Coal Co. is the Rockefeller coal company. Pittsburgh Coal Co. is the Mellon company. Pittsburgh produces more bituminous coal than Consolidation but its reserves of a billion tons are only half of Consolidation's. Last year Pittsburgh earned a little more than half of its fixed charges, Consolidation earned two thirds. Last week it was no surprise that 72-year-old Consolidation should go into receivership. Operating an "open shop," Consolidation has had little labor trouble but all other coal woes have been its woes. The receivership was precipitated by failure to pay interest...
Finally, Republican delegates will pursue their labored antics in as gloomy an aura of depression as their party has yet experienced. Aside from an ardent discipleship of Mellon methods which led managers to underestimate by $35,000 the total cost of the jamboree, it has become painfully necessary to lower the price of mezzannine seats from $100 to $40. Moreover, by chartering the arena for the weeks following the Republican convention, Democratic leaders have managed to chalk up to the G. O. P. ledger some $15,000 worth of staging and decoration. The show...
Also like Lindbergh, who borrowed a suit from Ambassador Herrick's son, Mrs. Putnam borrowed a blue woolen dress from Ambassador Mellon's daughter, Mrs. David K. E. Bruce. To Correspondent John Steele of the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper") all praise for scooping the world on Lady Astor's nightgown...