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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hughes Newton,* representing the Fifth (Minneapolis) Congressional District of Minnesota, resigned to become a Hoover secretary, to handle particularly post office patronage. A Republican primary was ordered. Mr. Coleman. good Newton friend that he was, resigned as Minneapolis postmaster to run in that primary. He had ample reason to believe he was the Administration's choice for nomination and election. Against him ran two other Republicans: Lieut. Gov. W. I. Nolan and onetime Yale footballer Walter William Heffelfinger (TIME June...
...Hoover Secretary Newton proved to be a true and unfailing friend. Words from him on post office matters carry great weight at the White House. The Minnesota election was barely over before President Hoover appointed Also-Ran Coleman to be First Assistant Postmaster-General, second-in-command of the whole vast U. S. postal service. A friend of Statesman Stimson and Leader Tilson might not win, it seemed, but a friend of Secretary Newton simply could not lose...
...result did the Taitt election differ from the previous five. All other nominees were comparatively young men. Dr. Taitt is five years older than 62-year-old Bishop Garland. He has labored in the Pennsylvania vineyard all his life. Other nominees took several weeks of consideration before refusing the post. Dr. Taitt was in an adjoining room while the votes were cast. Elected on the first ballot he was immediately notified of the results. Ten minutes later his acceptance was announced to the press. It appeared to most observers that the potentates of the Pennsylvania diocese had made sure...
Died. Sir A. Maurice Low, 68, of Washington, D. C., chief U. S. correspondent of the London Morning Post, 40 years a Washington newsgatherer; in Washington...
...preacher, the son of a railway engineer. Like the admiral in Pinafore, he "polished up the handles so care-ful-lee, that now he is the ruler of the King's navee." Earnest, hard working, his appointment was greeted with disdainful sniffs in Tory circles which consider the post of First Lord of the Admiralty one of the most important in any government. Last week the Baptist Sea Lord studied hard...