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...headed youngster named Carl Byrd Fisher often took walks in the hills with Whittier's stranger. In a rural magazine called Grit the boy saw a picture of Col. Raymond Robins, wealthy Chicago Prohibitor who had been strangely missing since he left New York Sept. 3 to lunch with his good friend President Hoover at the White House (TIME, Sept. 19). Grit readers were advised to notify Salmon Oliver Levinson, famed Chicago attorney, if they saw a man resembling the photograph. Last week Carl Fisher wrote Mr. Levinson that he suspected "Reynolds Rogers" was "your man." Mr. Levinson turned...
Rebuffed by Borah, the convention next nominated for the Presidency redheaded, wrinkled-faced William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, spry cripple, onetime (1919-27) Representative from Georgia. Frank Stewart Regan of Illinois was given the Vice-Presidential nomination. An ardent prohibitor but also a humble man, Nominee Upshaw announced that he would retire if Senator Borah or some other "outstanding figure" would agree to head a third party Dry ticket...
...suppose the President's party should declare for a referendum. Would he acquiesce? If he did, what then? Asked this question by the Christian Science Monitor last week, Prohibitor Clarence True Wilson gave the Dry answer: "Drys would not support him and would go to extreme lengths to repudiate what they would consider a policy of Judas Iscariot. . . . They would either put up an independent candidate or would vote for the other [Democratic] side even though it were Wet as a rebuke for that kind of leadership...
...site.* Last week in Washington steps were taken to fix the moral tone of Boulder City, make it a "model town." Appointed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to manage the land leasing on this government reservation was Louis C. Cramton, onetime (1913-31) Michigan Congressman, ardent Prohibitor. At Boulder City, Mr. Cramton announced, only two competing businesses of the same type would be permitted, and leases would be granted only on "character, personal fitness, personality, age, physical condition, financial and service fitness, training and experience." Only U. S. citizens may do business at Boulder City. Business lots will rent...
...Paris (1929) under the title of The Escaped Cock it drew words of high praise even from so belittling a Lawrence critic as John Middleton Murry. Devoutly orthodox Christians may find the story blasphemous (it will certainly be awarded a place on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitor urn) but regular Lawrence readers will doubtless take it as it was meant...