Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting: France, Louis Loucheur, ex-Minister for the Liberated Regions and a leading French financier; U. S. A., David Franklin Houston, Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Administration and now President of the Bell Telephone Securities Co.; Herman Harjes, head of the Morgan Bank in Paris; Nelson D. Jay and Nelson Perkins, bankers...
...Thomas Nelson Page was Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to the Court of Savoy. Of Thomas Nelson Page : a Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman by Rosewell Page, Mr. Mencken writes: " Let the Scribners take the gold-mounted custard pie for printing the worst biography every heard...
...late Knute Nelson, Viking of the Senate, is to have a remarkable successor, Magnus the Great. Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor candidate, defeated Governor Preus, the regular Republican candidate, for Minnesota's vacant seat in the Senate. The radical farmer won by a substantial majority. The Democratic candidate, Mr. Carley, who admittedly had no chance, came in third because there was no one else in the race...
...interior organization of the Senate the passing of the Vermont Senator is likely to produce a considerable effect; for, following the death of the late Senator Knute Nelson, Senator Dillingham would have become Chairman of the Judiciary Committee (by rule of seniority). Following the death of Senator Dillingham, Senator Brandegee, of Connecticut, will become Chairman of that committee...
...lines to encourage their parties' opponents at the coming election in Minnesota; to show further that the "progressive itch" is no respecter of denominations, one of the Senators is a Democrat, the other a Republican. On July 18, Minnesota will elect a successor to the late Senator Knute Nelson. The candidates are Governor J. A. O. Preus (Republican), State Senator J. T. Carley (Democrat), Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Labor). Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana (Democrat) announced that he would campaign for Johnson. He added to his announcement that he was not abandoning the Democratic Party but was convinced that...