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Strangely enough, this onetime Britisher with the flippant mustache and the magnate's look is such a good friend of labor that in 1922 when the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. tried to oust him from management, the employes bought sufficient stock with their savings to keep him in poWer. Said a motorman: "Mr. Mitten is just an ordinary man with extraordinary common sense...
Able Vermont Senator Porter H. Dale, long a quiet, potent Administration opponent, calmly derides Attorney General Sargent's rustic policies. Some months ago W. W. Stickney, onetime Governor of Vermont, announced his satiety with this situation, proposed in the fall to oust Senator Dale from his seat, proposed to fill the seat himself. Mr. Stickney is Mr. Sargent's law partner. Mr. Stickney is a cousin of President Coolidge. Mr. Stickney is the executor of the estate of President Coolidge's father, the late Colonel John Coolidge. In fact, John Coolidge received his title of "Colonel" from...
...keep his three papers running. Soon afterwards his San Francisco paper, the Illustrated Herald, suspended publication, and his Los Angeles paper, the Illustrated News, went into receivership. Last week his Miami paper, the Illustrated Tab, failed to appear. The owner of its offices had taken legal measures to oust it for failure to pay rent. The same day that word of the suspension came to the press, a despatch from Paris announced that General Pershing, arriving in France to inspect war monuments, cemeteries and battle fields, had motored up from Cherbourg to Paris with his young friend of war-days...
...second amendment was proposed by Senator Norris of Nebraska. He charged that the President had exerted pressure on the Tariff Commissioners; that in the case of David J. Lewis, who was appointed from Maryland, President Coolidge had demanded his resignation in advance so as to be able to oust him if he voted against the President's wishes. Senator Norris also spoke of onetime Commissioner Culbertson, now Minister to Roumania: "Culbertson had on the one hand a threat held out against him that he was perhaps going to be removed from office because it was claimed that he had violated...
...want you." To this phrase there was no dignity as that attached to "What God hath wrought!" the first intelligible phrase carried over Samuel F. B. Morse's first telegraph. But the two young men were so jubilant in their cheap Boston lodging house that their landlady threatened to oust them. For money to install his new invention and to give it proper publicity Bell was obliged to go lecturing. In Manhattan he got Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne L. Roosevelt to sink $18,000 there. The Western Union fought them, blocked them from going into hotels and railroad stations...