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This year there were nine candidates in the first primary, held in July. One of them, Judge Felix D. Robertson, nominally sat on the Klan fence, although the Klan endorsed him. The others were all more or less openly opposed to the Klan. Among these candidates was Mrs. Miriam Ferguson, wife of ex-Governor James E. Ferguson, who, in 1917, was impeached while in office, on ten counts, one of them charging that he used the State funds to pay a personal debt of some...
...Prof. Archibald T. Robertson, of Louisville, lectured seven times to preachers on the subject of preaching. He warned them against "rote...
...Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, "NonPartisan" Republican; Morris Hillquit, Manhattan Socialist; William H. Johnston of Washington, President of the International Association of Machinists and Chairman of the Conference which endorsed Mr. LaFollette; Basil M. Manly of Washington, Director of the "People's Legislative Service"; D. B. Robertson of Cleveland, President of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen; Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans of Boston, suffragist; Mrs. Edward P. Costigan of Colorado; then a bird of somewhat different plumage - Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco. The fact which makes Mr. Spreckels' plumage outstanding is that...
Fifth Day. Before the 200-metre sprint, Head Coach Lawson Robertson spat fire at his fleet charges, enflamed Scholz and Paddock so that they went blazing by Harold Abrahams (their extinguisher in the 100-metre race) and E. H. Liddell (the Scotch parson who had refused to compete in "the century" because it was held on Sunday...
...night and discussed prospects for the intercollegiates, jotting down certain observations regarding the relative merits of this season's crop of stars. No thought was given to teams, but merely to individuals, and when all of the 15 events had been discussed, a tabulation of the points showed Lawson Robertson's University of Pennsylvania team out in front by an eyelash, only half a point ahead of Yale. The points for the leaders were Penn 28, Yale 27 1-2, California 23, Stanford and Princeton 22 each, and Boston College 18. Coach Farrell's men are doped to collect...