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...summer home near New Milford, Conn, elephantine William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, oldtime Princeton footballer, onetime Collector of Internal Revenue at New York City, entertained elephantine Sandor Szabo, Hungarian wrestling "champion." Reported the New Milford Times: "Mr. Szabo did much woodchopping at the Edwards place???in fact there are some who say that 'Big Bill' was short of kindlings and therefore invited one who could and did enjoy chopping. We however, do not believe this vile rumor." The Times did believe and report that "Big Bill" and Szabo engaged in a friendly bout on the lake shore, that "Big Bill...
...Arthur J. Weaver of Nebraska, Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Woodman and Elk, and Mayor Richard Lee Metcalfe of Omaha, onetime editorial aide and good friend of the late arch-Protestant William Jennings Bryan, uttered the official welcome; Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards) coliseum provided a meeting place???when last week some 5,000 Roman Catholic archbishops, bishops, monsignori, priests and some 25,000 laymen assembled at Omaha for the first National Eucharistic Congress in 19 years. It was the greatest concourse of U. S. Catholics since the International Eucharistic Congress at Chicago four years...
Saturday?"I wish there were more folks about the place???I would not then feel myself quite so lonesome. I am becoming more attached to him each...
...extra vote in the Senate. But next fall there will be a bitter fight. Watson will be up for re-election for a full term. Robinson will probably stand for re-election for the unexpired Ralston term, lasting until 1929. Beveridge will fight one of them for his place???probably Robinson because he is weaker. And Governor Ed. Jackson may come into the fray by resigning and running for the Senate. With four Republicans, or at least three, scrapping for two offices, there will be a bitter fight, and Tom Taggart or some Democrat of his choice will have...
Butler let it be known that he had picked Senator Borah for that place??? an error in strategy which gave the Old Guard, pure-political faction, an open-ing for revolt, a chance in the confusion to seize the power which had been taken from them. Slemp was at hand and in no sympathy with Mr. Butler's futile efforts at the last minute to swing the nomination to Judge Kenyon, Representative Burton or Secretary Hoover. The Old Guard, resenting Butler's domination and doubtless with the comfort if not the abetment of Slemp, seized the first candidate...