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...Gary surgical supply house which his brother established, and of the Cary-Schneider Investment Co. which looks after the family's general business interests. Right now he is guiding Dallas in the expenditure of $25,000,000 on civic improvements. His varied interests go further: fraternal work (32° Mason, Shriner), religion (Baptist), politics (Democrat). A strong argument for his election as A. M. A. president was his large scale building experience. He will supervise the construction of a new A. M. A. headquarters building in Chicago. The diversion which enthralls him most is golf, and once golf awarded...
Republican Harry Ephraim Rowbottom of Evansville, onetime tailor and accountant, Mason, Moose, Eagle and Shriner, was elected to the House of Representatives from the First Indiana District in 1924. Last November a Democrat beat him for reelection. The Rowbottom campaign fund was in the red. As a "lame duck," he continued to get small postal jobs for friends, took their money as contributions to his deficit. For this he was caught, indicted. On trial at Evansville last week he admitted that one Walter Ayer had given him $750 and that he had recom- mended Ayer's son Gresham...
...meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother was a Quaker. His own faith is the Episcopalian. He drives out of Washington for Sunday services in country churches. He smokes three cigars a day. does not chew, swears privately. His fraternal affiliations: Masons (32nd degree. Knights Templar. Shriner). Rotary. Odd Fellows. (Continued Outside Congress...
TIME reported the election of Charles Edwin Winter, Republican oilman, jurist, Shriner, rhymster, of Casper, Wyoming (near famed Teapot Dome and Salt...
...from Wyoming, Charles Edwin Winter, used to be a Representative (1923-27). Before that he was an oilman and a judge. His home is at Casper, near famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek. He is a Shriner. But Senators like Borah and Johnson have taught Washington to view with some circumspection any statesman from the great open spaces who has risen to Senatorial rank...