Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fred Dankowske, a footloose youngster from Chicago, drifted to booming Salt Lake City. There he made a real-estate killing, fell in love with pretty Mary Alice Robins, who shared his passion for travel and scenery. On their honeymoon Mr. & Mrs. Dankowske clopped north to Yellowstone Park in a horse and wagon...
...prayer over, Mr. Eddy walked out. Senator Harry W. Bolens, 75, who is famed for taking catnaps at his desk, rose like a pillar of fire, asked if Mr. Eddy were a "Christian gentleman," said: "I hope we never invite him to come again into the company of decent men." Thereupon the Senate's Chief Clerk told Mr. Eddy that he need not fill his next praying engagement...
Last week the Madison Ministerial Association, which furnishes most of the Senate's praying parsons, formally resolved : "We cannot participate in this duty as chaplains unless we are assured of freedom. . . ." Promptly lest the Senate's supply of supplication dry up, the Chief Clerk put Mr. Eddy back on the active list...
Interviewed privately, Mr. Howe declared he was dead serious. He explained away a similar announcement last January by saying that that had simply been a feeler. His strongest campaign card, said he, would be his pledge to write a daily column "on what goes on in Washington so it can be understood out in this part of Texas...
What some old-line Texas Democrats questioned, however, was the precise color of Mr. Howe's political complexion. His father was a stand-pat Republican. His Atchison Globe is still Republican. Moreover, Texas folk are still quoting a public address Gene Howe made two years ago when, kidding on the square, he said that before moving to Texas, he and his late partner, Wilbur C. Hawk, nipped a coin to determine which would be Democrat, which Republican. Until his death in 1936 Hawk supported Alf Landon. But if Gene Howe never gets to Congress, he probably...