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...seemingly placed on the picture, one is happily surprised to find that the vaudeville maintains its usual excellence. "Slim" Timberlin heads the bill and his black-face act of monologue and dialogue keeps the audience in a constant uproar of laughter. For an orchestra composed entirely of women, Jean Rankin's group is surprisingly good, and the members show great versatility in the variety of instruments played...
...floor the Speaker allowed the House just three hours. To the debate he did not have to listen, because he turned the chair over to Representative Sloan of Nebraska during the bill's consideration in the Committee of the whole. Opposition to tax reduction came principally from Representatives Rankin of Mississippi, Ramseyer of Iowa, who argued heatedly but vainly for application of the surplus to public debt reduction...
...battle for the governorship was the chief issue, last week, between the two factions. Clark is supporting Republican Wellington D. Rankin. Anaconda aids the campaign for re-election of Governor John E. Erickson, Democrat. Clark's Free Press exulted, last week, when Candidate Rankin spurned the "Aid of a Kept Press as Kiss of Death." Anaconda's Standard headlined: MUNCHAUSEN A PILLAR OF TRUTH COMPARED TO CLARK. Listed in the story were 6 "major, frenzied, malicious Clark lies." The sixth was "the statement made daily by the Clark newspaper that it is devoted solely to the interests...
...Passed the Senate's bill to raise the retirement pay of 3,390 War officers who were disabled 30% or more, to the scale paid regular retired officers, entailing $2,294,000 per annum (average, $56.40 per month per officer); Representatives Johnson (South Dakota), McClintic (Oklahoma) Luce (Massachusetts), Rankin (Mississippi), Vincent (Michigan), Huddleston (Alabama) opposed this bill but it was passed without a roll call. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $1,770,000 in the next five years to breed game-fish. ¶ Voted 169 to 159 for an adjournment blocking a vote on the Senate's measure...
...other sport, are decided by training methods, considered the theories and personalities of the various coaches. Most discussed last week was Edward O. Leader (Yale), gruff and domineering, who has built his crew out of meagre material. A week before the race at Philadelphia he found a stroke, Woodruff Rankin Tappen. He believes that Yale will row in the Olympics...