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That was how it began. The Reverend Charles A. Livingston, descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, approved of dancing and cigarets. Or at least he did not disapprove of them. In little old Setauket, on Long Island's North Shore, that set up eddies of talk behind green-shuttered windows whenever he walked down the street. Plump, rich Julia Smith, in whose backyard is the grave of an ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston...
...Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid $10,100 for the small, precise squiggle of Georgia's Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, affixed in witness of a farmer's will. In 1927 Bibliophile Rosenbach bid higher than any man had ever before bid on a single piece of Americana, paid $51,000 for a letter by Signer Button Gwinnett. Four years ago Yale University awarded...
Died. Fredrick Bennett Balzar, 53, Republican Governor of Nevada, signer of his state's six-week divorce and legalized gambling bills; after a long illness; in Carson City...
...Joseph Vincent McKee was the last of the major candidates to have his name entered on the ballots. Twelve men staggered into the Board of Elections carrying nine fat volumes in which 115,000 people had signed their names petitioning that he be placed in the running. Many a signer had written in McKee's name at last November's special Mayoral election, after McKee had served 16 weeks as Acting Mayor following James John ("Jimmy") Walker's flight from City Hall (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932). Now, having retired from politics, having refused the Fusion nomination which...
...Fortunately." concluded Signer Jung, "there now seems to be a trend toward world recovery through the action of natural forces...