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...collect what they consider their just patronage reward for carrying their State for the Hoover-Curtis ticket. They tried and failed to squeeze Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, into the Hoover Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior. Kentucky's Republican Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr. produced a candidate for Solicitor General, then one for Assistant Attorney General, but both offices went to other men. Kentucky's patronage demands de-scended to an appeal to President Hoover to appoint a Negro physician of Lexington as Minister to Liberia...
...Hero Moseley. The "Big River" or Rio Grande is part of the frontier between the U. S. and Mexico. Facing each other on opposite banks stand twin cities. El Paso and Juarez?queer twins. El Paso is a clean, Babbitt city, with little skyscrapers; but dirty Juarez is a town of low adobe structures where drink and vicious company are easily found. In Juarez last week General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., acquitted himself right well as a Hero of Peace...
...girlchild, Miss Lydia Roberts, was killed by a second stray bullet, and a third despatched "the most popular U. S. citizen in Juarez," jovial "Teddy" Barnes, bartender of the famed Mint Cafe. With a bank, a baby and a bartender all involved, General George Van Horn Moseley went into action...
Hurrying across the International Bridge General Moseley intervened between the Federalistas and Insurrectos, and arranged that the former, hopelessly outnumbered, should evacuate Juarez, retire across the International Bridge and submit to internment at Fort Bliss. Firing was stopped on the basis of this agreement; some 350 federals crossed the river and were interned...
...William O. Moseley Jr. Travelling Fellowships were founded by Mrs. William O. Moseley in 1912. They are open to students who have attended the Medical School for three or four years, to enable them to continue the study of medicine in Europe. Two or three fellowships will be awarded from the income, which is approximately...