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...When he was U. S. Attorney General (1921-24), Harry Micajah Daugherty had the statute of limitations extended from three to six years for the avowed purpose of prosecuting war frauds. The purpose of Senator Walsh's revision was to rob Milton T. Everhart, son-in-law of Albert Bacon Fall, of the excuse upon which he escaped testifying in the Fall-Sinclair oil lease trials. If immune to prosecution for anything he did more than three years ago, Mr. Everhart cannot again plead fear of selfincrimination; must tell about some suspicious Liberty Bonds he handled in 1922 during...
Family. Of the four daughters and two sons of Stanley Baldwin, one daughter, one son are famed. Miss Betty Baldwin, a hearty bouncing young woman, frequently electioneers for Conservative M. P.'s. Her brother Oliver Baldwin is, per contra, the family political throwback, a Socialist-intellectual. Hilarious was the contest for the Parliamentary seat from Smethwick (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926), wherein Betty Baldwin electioneered for the Conservative candidate and Oliver Baldwin successfully championed the candidacy of a brother throwback-Socialist, Mr. Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late pinnacle of Conservatism, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston...
Died. Major Reginald Owen, son-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, and husband of Ruth Bryan Owen who ran for Congress from Florida in 1926; in Miami, of trench nephritis, contracted during British service in the War. London correspondents erroneously reported the death of Reginald Owen, British actor, now playing in Manhattan with Billie Burke in The Marquise...
Minnesota blacksmith's son, Iowa farm boy, teacher-lawyer, able attorney, Spanish-War officer,* son-in-law of George Mortimer Pullman (sleeping cars), thrice a Congressman (1906-11), firm and constructive Governor,† grand-scale agriculturalist-Mr. Lowden is a pleasant, capable, 66-year-old city-man-turned-squire who stands looking at the Presidential chair with ambitious interest but with a gentlemanly restraint. He would not think of trying to climb up and sit in the chair without a genuine invitation...
...diocesan work threatened too much labor for his strength. He resigned his collateral work in Europe. John Gardner Murray, presiding bishop, at once communicated with another able churchman, rugged Bishop William Lawrence. Bishop Lawrence, 77, last June resigned from the Diocese of Massachusetts, where his coadjutor bishop and son-in-law Charles Lewis Slattery succeeded him. Bishop Lawrence told his superior that he could visit the nine European parishes and their appendages the requisite one time every three years, and Bishop Murray appointed him to the post forthwith...