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...bench. To one of these, John Rutledge of South Carolina, chosen by President Washington to succeed John Jay, the Senate refused confirmation and he had to resign. Jefferson observed sarcastically to Monroe that Washington's purpose had apparently been "to keep five mouths always gaping for one sugar plum."* But in 1910, when President Taft successfully elevated Edward Douglass White, the precedent was broken...
...grand jury in Florida returned a secret indictment against Congressman Michaelson, charging him with illegally importing "six quarts of John Haig whiskey, two quarts of creme de menthe liquor, one quart of taffel Akavait, one quart of creme de cacao, one quart of cherry brandy and one keg of plum Barbaucourt." In November, Congressman Michaelson was elected to the House for the fifth time. Last February he voted for the Five & Ten (Jones) Law as commanded by the Anti-Saloon League. Last week a warrant was out for his arrest on the Florida indictment. Bond...
Without a doubt the Most Blessed Father had excellent reason for awarding this major journalistic plum exclusively to Thomas B. Morgan, onetime Associated Press correspondent and now Chief of the Rome Bureau of the rival United Press. Although lean, astute, close-mouthed Tom Morgan has been getting down to the Vatican for over a decade, he professed himself "amazed," last week, when the Summus Pontifex received him not in the Papal Throne Room but privily in his library. Observant Tom Morgan noted that Pio Undecimo was wearing "his little zucchetto or skull cap," and that "he spoke in a calm...
...Hazen's school at Pelham Manor, N. Y., to join a stock company playing in Washington, D. C. Later she supported Lowell Sherman, Pauline Lord, Lenore Ulric. She translated La Tendresse from the French, produced it herself and played the lead. She was in The Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles when Emil Jannings requested that she take a screen test, and picked her for Sins of the Fathers. She says she likes riding and swimming, but she stays indoors a lot. She spends her holidays in France but has never acted there. Her next sound-film...
Unpleasant little things may have afflicted Massachusetts Republicans on Election Day, but national good fortune has its redeeming features. And so "the political plum tree," announces a news despatch in a Boston Paper, will he loaded down with "2000 luscious jobs" when the federal census is take in 1930. Most of the workers will receive only from $80 to $200 for two weeks work, but for those who are more deserving, there are a number of "very fat" positions as supervisors. Evidently the only question worrying the leaders of the Grand Old Party in the Bay State is just...