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...Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap...
...content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left over from education and lodge meetings he spends studying botany, raising flowers, fishing...
...State's House of Delegates. He was once his State's department commander. In 1917 he went through an officer's training school, was commissioned a captain, served a year with the A. E. F. in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Large (220 lb.), bald, jovial, a Mason. Elk, Shriner. Odd Fellow, he is married, has two daughters, is rated a "good fellow." He will have no qualms about the state of the Treasury while pressing the Legion's bonus fight before Congress...
...horse laugh. Packy, U. S. Adonis, ex-Yale footballer and recent millionaire, has bitten off more than he really wants to chew in getting engaged to a beautiful English bluestocking. Fat, henpecked Mr. Gedge is in an even tougher spot, living in enforced exile from his beloved California, his Shriner tendencies sternly held in check by a wife who intends to make him U. S. Ambassador to France. Europe-junketing Senator Opal, a political Dry with a really horrible temper, who unluckily sent Mrs. Gedge a letter intended for his bootlegger, is to be the blunt, blackmailed instrument...
...Boys' Home has become a source of pride to Omaha, a model institution for the nation. Through Father Flanagan's hands have passed 2,984 boys from 36 States. On the Flanagan board of directors are President James Edward Davidson of Nebraska Power Co., Protestant and Shriner, and Henry Monsky, a leading Omaha lawyer, Jew and Shriner. Proud is Father Flanagan that the footsteps of none of his boys, many of them handed over to him by the courts, have ever led to jail or prison...