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Editor Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald, 44-year-old Republican, Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
...even a national convention of U. S. postmasters and postal supervisors last week at Niagara Falls, N. Y., made much popular impression. Newspapers that will lavish column after column upon Moose. Shriner, Grotto, Lion, Rotary, Yahoo, Wahoo and Hoohoo conventions, gave their old friends the postmasters scarcely a mention. Even the presence in Buffalo and the speech of Postmaster General Harry S. New were virtually ignored by local newspapers...
Often has the clear tenor voice of E. Vaughn Ray, Maskat Temple Shriner, member of the first Baptist Church, rung out at funerals in Wichita Falls, Tex. Last week, once more, he sang, "Oh Lord, Is It I?" But this time his voice emerged from a record played on a phonograph in one of the Sunday school rooms. "Whose funeral is it?" whispered a late comer to an usher. "Vaughn Ray's," replied the other. "Don't he sing pretty? There's the body up the aisle, under the flowers...
Colonel Smith is a Moose, Elk, Shriner, Knight of Pythias, Woodman, etc. He once managed Mr. Taft's Illinois primary campaign. He has been once a Congressman (1919). He often says: "I'm just an ordinary...
...fray went to the local Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were responsible for staging what proved to be a combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic Shriner, tossed a football from the 23rd floor of the San Francisco Telephone Co. Building. Then he tossed another- and another-and another. Meanwhile Brick Muller, famed Californian right end of the "All-Westerns," scampered about 320 feet below and finally caught Potentate McKevitt's fourth downward pass. Baseball fans...