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...faculty of the University of Chicago, he has made many a valuable contribution to Science. Born at Strelno, Germany, a son of Samuel Michelson and Rosalie Przlubska, he is a brother of Charles Michelson (rabidly Democratic chief of The New York World's Washington Bureau) and of Miriam Michelson (author). But he graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis when these two were still on the Pacific coast, in swaddling clothes...
...Texas. Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson was elected Governor. Her husband, ex-Governor, impeached and removed from office several years ago, did a large part of her campaigning and is now expected by many "to be the power behind the throne"-although she says otherwise...
...complexion of Texas seemed to be altering. In August, upon her nom- ination by the Democrats, Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson was virtually accepted by the Nation as the Governor-elect of Texas. Last week, public prints of all party affiliations published despatches to the effect that this first blush had faded; that Dr. George C. Butte, Republican nominee, was offering "more resistance than any Republican since the days of the Reconstruction." The reports held that the Republican Party of Texas is once more "a white man's affair." In the old days, only Negroes would vote...
...tennis apostate had had time to develop. Mrs. Hurd romped off 7-and-6 with the title. Even so, Miss Browne's glory was inviolate. Edith Cummings, of Chicago, de fending champion, faded early from the scene, a vendetta victim. In the second round she ran across young Miriam Burns, of Kansas City, whose ptomaine gripes during the finals of the Western championship last month had let her in for a 12-and-11 humiliation at Aliss Cummings' hands. Miriam Burns teed off this time with health on her side, with a determination to be revenged, with...
...victory, in the Texas Democratic primary for Governor, of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, wife of a one-time Governor who was impeached, was hailed as a triumph of the anti-Klan movement. Last week it was followed 'by the resignation of Thomas B. Love, Democratic National Committeeman from Texas for the past four years. Said Mr. Love...