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Democrat Thompson becomes the Senate's oldster, taking that distinction from Wyoming's Kendrick by four years. His age. however, was his chief recommendation for office in the Governor's eyes. His Washington service will be brief (the term expires 1935) and quiet. "Brother Charley" has ample assurances that he will step aside next year for a Bryan-for-Senator campaign...
Unseen by the Senate judges last week was a grey-haired oldster of San Francisco whose testimony the House managers claimed was vital to the prosecution. His name was W. S. ("Sam") Leake. Before liquor sent him reeling into the gutter, he used to be managing editor of the old San Francisco Morning Call. Later he turned religious, stopped drinking, became a faith healer (his phrase: "metaphysical student"). His "treatments" consisted of instruction in "right thinking." His patients paid him as they chose. No fool, "Sam" Leake knew many an important San Franciscan, including Senator Shortridge whose son & wife...
...strength the Mc-Duffie ticket was helpless. Representative Rainey went up, 166 to 112, for Speaker, with other "deal" candidates winning handily. The vote sent glimmering Vice President Garner's aspiration to run the House from the Senate rostrum. In his place the House Democrats had picked an oldster of 28 years service, a lawyer-turned-farmer, a low-tariff sales-taxer, a radical of yesterday with whose advanced ideas the country is just catching...
...Jumblies' habitat are detective stories about human beings. Writers of detectifiction are not usually able characterizers, and vice versa; it is too hard to do, gives unnecessarily much for the money. Oldster Eden Phillpotts has made a sturdy attempt. With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...
...Oldster Litzmann began his new career by opening the Prussian State Diet for the Fascist Party last...