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...Kentucky's primary was a simulacrum-with a reverse result-of last year's Barkley-Chandler fight which Senator Barkley (and WPA) won. Last week the Chandler man, Lieut.-Governor Keen Johnson, beat the Barkley (and C. I. O.) man, John Young Brown, for Democratic nomination to the Governorship...
...career and ambitious to be a publisher, he lent Mrs. Dargie $65,000, in return for which she assigned him temporarily her half-interest in the Tribune. This half-interest Joe Knowland put up as collateral for a loan with which he bought the other half of the paper. Result of these transactions was to make Joe Knowland and Herminia Peralta Dargie joint owners of the Tribune, with Knowland holding voting control (to cover his $65,000 loan) and acting as publisher and president. Publisher Knowland and Widow Dargie became fast friends...
Chief pillar of the Golden Age was wealth, not piety, and chief source of this wealth the lucrative trade-triangle-West Indian molasses, Newport rum, African slaves. Result: one of the largest groups of private mansions in New England. Through these fine houses from the Revolution to the present have passed nearly all the famed social arbiters and artists of U. S. history. Rev. Thomas Skinner sat for Telegraph Inventor-Painter Samuel F. B. Morse; National Academy President Daniel Huntington painted Bishop Henry C. Potter; Alexander James did Admiral Stephen B. Luce, who inaugurated modern naval training; George Peter Alexander...
...Anacreon of the North," the "Last of the Troubadours." Last year van Loon and Grace Castagnetta, U. S. pianist spent five months in Sweden, acquainting themselves with Bellman's background and with the Swedish language which, in his songs, is almost untranslatably idiomatic. This week they published the result: 20 songs, with piano accompaniment arranged by Miss Castagnetta; translation, drawings, decorations and an introduction by van Loon...
...second, the round trip would take 6 min. 28 sec. The key was tapped. For 6 min. 28 sec. everyone waited. Nothing happened. After a brief pause, WOR switched Baldwin off its hookup, Ben Bernie on. A few diehards argued that they had heard something, but officially the result of the experiment was "negative." WOR's Chief Engineer J. R. Poppele, who was in on the 1924 experiment, cheerfully announced that he would try again during Mars's next "favorable opposition" to Earth...