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...shut-mouthed Senator, he rarely speaks on the floor. His words are tame, uninspiring. Though he is fairly attentive to debate, his colleagues are inclined to regard him as lazy in the chamber and committee. He is short, plump, with a round, bland face. His clothes are in quiet good taste. A Roman Catholic, he does not chum with other Southern Democrats, lives quietly in his Washington home on Mintwood Place...
...leader but political Washington took the Sacramento meeting with comparative equanimity. Of vastly greater concern to it was the national convention next week at Portland, Ore. of V. F. W.'s big young brother, the American Legion. Would the Legion, with its 936,000 members, also plump for immediate payment of the Bonus? It seemed certain to do so. Would wrathful legionaries also succeed in having the convention censure President Hoover for his treatment of the B. E. F? It seemed likely. The prospect sent cold chills up & down the spines of the Republican high command...
...amazed every one, were her onetime husband, Harold Fowler McCormick, their three living children, and her brother John. They had all come to her after years of an estrangement that was more of her making than theirs. A chief cause of the estrangement was also in devoted attendance?the plump little Swiss named Edwin D. Krenn with whom she had shared her last eleven years. Her brother John did not wait for the end. Itching painfully with an attack of shingles, he rejoined their father, John Davison Rockefeller, in the East. Long estranged too, and querulously jealous...
...these booths until last week a plump, spectacled little Spanish woman, Senora Condeleria Brau-Soler, shrilly hawked beauty creams that she stirred up herself in a hotel room not far away. Snivelling loudly, Senora Brau-Soler led police to that room last week. There on the floor, sharp under the single drop light and the grimy, epileptic wallpaper, lay the body of her lover, a grey-haired man of 62, still handsome. Senora Brau-Soler had nearly severed his neck with a razor. Within an hour transatlantic cables were clicking, for Senora Brau-Soler's dead lover always insisted...
...Author. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, born, raised and resident in Richmond, Va., hotbed of Southern tradition, decided she would not be a romantic, sentimental Southern belle-lettriste. She announced: ''What the South needs now is?blood and irony." Plump, lively, slightly deaf, she finds life agreeable and amusing. Though she thought she could die of happiness if her first book was accepted, after her 17th was published she remarked: "I've never been happy and have not died." Authoress Glasgow lives in an old house in the heart of Richmond at No. i West Main Street, entertains there her friends...