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...called in for full-time service to help handle the swelling volume of first-class mail. An amazing number of dimes began to pop out of the stamp-canceling machines. Finally it was discovered that a "Send-a-Dime" chain letter was sweeping the city. Completely swamped, Postmaster James Orren Stevic called in postal inspectors to investigate the possibilities of stopping the scheme as fraudulent. "The thing is staggering in its proportions," sighed weary Postmaster Stevic. When the Post Office Department in Washington pronounced the letters illegal, Denverites protested so loudly that Postmaster Stevic had to have his home telephone...
...Mexico; Laird Bell Chicago attorney; Hendon Chubb of Manhattan's insurance firm of Chubb & Son; W. L. Clayton, Houston cotton tycoon; John Cowles, Des Moines publisher; Herman Lewis Ekern, onetime Attorney General of Wisconsin; Philip La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin; Mills Bee Lane, Savannah banker; Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois; Orrin K. McMurray, Dean of the University of California's law school; Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan; John C. Traphagen. president of Bank of New York & Trust Co.; President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth; Thomas Day Thacher, onetime solicitor general; Quincy Wright, University...
Movements as well as people were absent. There was no Revolt of the Farmers such as led to the withdrawal of Frank Orren Lowden in 1928. There was no Economic Insurgency. There were no "Allies" banded against the leading candidate. Chicago was calm, composed, conservative, deadly dull...
...Gates Dawes at the Court of St. James's. Walter Evans Edge, U. S. Ambassador to France, it was reported, had declined promotion to this No. 1 diplomatic post because Mrs. Edge preferred Paris to London. Mr. Dawes. it was said, wanted to see his good old friend Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois given the job but somewhere a hitch had occurred. So President Hoover turned to Mr. Mellon, gently pushed his 76-year-old Secretary of the Treasury upstairs into the foreign service. How did Mr. Mellon feel about it? asked a correspondent...
...Union League Club the trustees of the Mount Rushmore Memorial-among them, President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co., onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois- met to choose a substitute historian, adjourned for a year without being able to do so. They did adopt a budget of $70,000 for 1931, promised newsgatherers that by next November the figures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be complete as far down as the waistcoats, that men would be at work on Abraham Lincoln...