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...Republicans between the floating ribs. The thin little fellow with crutches-sharp face, dandy hair-is Upshaw, of course, the champion of prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League gives him $100 for every Dry speech he makes. See that elderly man, with a sort of hard-shell face? That is Snell, chairman of the Rules Committee. He is a red flag to the radicals. They think he is the special representative of the interests. Over there is Martin Madden, who has the difficult job of chairman of the Appropriations Committee. There are a lot more of course. Will Wood, who runs...
...board. His object, as at his other breakfasts lately, was to impress Congress through its leaders with the necessity of cutting down appropriations, however worthy. Among those present: Senator Norbeck, chairman of the Committee on Pensions (there was a $19,000,000 Spanish War Veterans' Pension Bill pending); Mr. Snell, Chairman of the House Committee on Rules (which has power to block much legislation); several members of the House Committee on Agriculture (which is dealing with expensive farm relief measures...
...convention, dull. Of the celebrated pictures and sculpture they could find nothing new to say, and after examining the many other interesting specimens they could only express an inevitable doubt that such opera as "A Frosty Morning, Montclair," "The Hurrying River" by Robert H. Nisbet, "Afterglow" by Henry B. Snell, "The Last Moments of John Brown" by Thomas Hovenden will be considered "masterpieces" at the end of another, even though an equally enterprising century...
...Miss Violet Burd Grubb of Burlington, N. J., Miss Rosalie Evans of Manhattan, Miss Florence Pratt of Manhattan, Miss Helen Sheldon of London, Miss Annie Laurie Warmack of St. Louis, Mo ; Mrs Cass Gilbert of New York and Ridgefield, Conn. Mars. H. A. Murray of Boston, Mrs Bertrand H. Snell of New York and Washington...
...allowing the visitors only five hits. He is sure to meet competition of a much sterner sort this afternoon, and he will have a dangerous opponent in the Brown leader who throws and bats left-handed. Trumbower has turned in a better record this year than any of Coach Snell's hurlers, although he is naturally a fielder, conscripted to the pitching string this year by the dearth at Providence of good hurlers...