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Roared William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, ousted Chicago mayor: "Poli tics? Haven't given it a thought, Bud! I'm learning to loaf for the first time in my life and it's a pretty agreeable pastime, once you get the hang of the darned thing...
...district attorney urged his hearers against acting as the masters of the public instead of as their servants. The officer who bullies motorist is prejudicing a future junior against the poli may testify before him. In Whalen's words, "he is not sell Police Department to the publi...
...want La Follette on their committee was plain. The Finance Committee is com posed of eleven Republicans and eight Democrats. Among the Republicans is Michigan's Couzens, prime foe of Secretary Mellon. If Senator La Follette and Couzens join with Democrat members in opposing the Administration's fiscal poli cies, which is altogether likely, the Regular Republican majority will be overthrown by one vote. Well aware of this fact were the Insurgent Republicans in urging Sena tor La Follette for the Committee...
Married. Marquis Lippi Gerini, of Florence, Italy; to Miss Lillian Madelyn Poli, 26, daughter of Sylvester Z. Poli, immigrant-to-millionaire theatre man;* in New Haven, Conn. Five Yale footballers and Swimmers Helen Meaney and Aileen Riggin were recruited for the bridal party. Firemen and State Troopers assisted New Haven police in controlling the 2,000 guests...
...parodied a rhymster four years ago when A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young was new and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., having failed to become Governor of New York, had set off for the wild Pamir region of Asia to hunt Marco Polo's lost sheep (Ovis poli) for Chicago's Field Museum. Last week Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was again playing, in an Indo-Chinese place where the wild beasts race, when he succeeded at last in becoming a Governor ?of Porto Rico?by appointment of President Hoover...