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...Gotthilf Paul Bronisch, Obermagistratsrat of the city of Berlin, sat down in the Mayflower Hotel's glittering main ballroom amid the flower of U. S. civic leadership. Around him were arrayed the mayors of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Duluth, Louisville, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York, Omaha, Richmond, Savannah, Toledo, Tulsa, Saginaw, Stamford, Lima, Joplin. Durham, East Orange, Amarillo, many another city large and small. Half a hundred strong, they were ranged at long tables before the speaker's stand, they and their aides and emissaries, their bulbous noses and their pot bellies, for another solemn, straight-faced...
Besides announcing the names of 20 Cardinals-to-be (see above), Pope Pius XI last week filled two vacant U. S. bishoprics. To shepherd all the Catholics of Georgia as Bishop of Savannah, he appointed Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, 40, who has been auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia since 1929. Appointed to be Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette was Auxiliary Bishop Joseph C. Plagens, 55, of Detroit, onetime pastor of Sweetest Heart of Mary Church...
When Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge ousted his politically hostile State Highway Commission by declaring martial law and setting National Guardsmen with machine guns over highway funds (TIME, July 3, 1933), there were few more interested observers than a young politician named Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston across the Savannah River in South Carolina. No sooner had he entered his State's Legislature in 1929 than Representative Johnston began charging the head of South Carolina's State Highway Commission, potent Ben Mack Sawyer, with political skulduggery. Next year he ran for Governor with the slogan "Out with Tsar...
...Savannah, Captain Carter's successor began an investigation resulting in charges that he had conspired with the harbor contractors to mulct the Government, by shoddy work and extravagant prices, of some $1,800,000. Summoned from London, Captain Carter was court-martialed, cashiered from the Army, sentenced to five years at hard labor in Leavenworth Prison, fined $5,000. His crime & sentence were ordered published in his home town (Patriot, Ohio) newspapers for one year. After 17 months President McKinley approved his sentence and he was clapped into Leavenworth. The contractors were also sentenced to prison, fined...
Three factors were responsible for his conviction. Oldster Carter told the Senator. One was his Savannah successor's jealousy of his social success. Another was the fact that he had favored construction of a canal through Panama, thus incurring the wrath of New York's onetime Senator Warner Miller, head of the Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua. Lastly, said he, the late, great Republican Boss Mark Hanna had persuaded President McKinley that if he failed to approve Carter's conviction he would, in the coming election, lose Ohio and the Presidency to Admiral Dewey...