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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into President Hoover's office at the White House last week marched two Senators-Jones of Washington, Walsh of Montana; and two Representatives-Til-son of Connecticut, Garner of Texas. They came to perform a traditional ceremony- notification of the President that Congress was about to adjourn. Congressman Tilson truly declared that the House had finished its program. When Senator Jones's turn came to speak for the Senate, he repeated the historic phrase: "Mr. President, the Senate has completed its work-" Then he qualified: "-as far as possible." It was all the others present on this solemn...
After 37 years and one month of service in the Senate, longest in U. S. history, Death came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise...
...convicted poultrymen face a maximum sentence of one year in jail, $5,000 fine. One wily poultryman, hoping for a light sentence from Judge John Clark Knox, named his newborn son John Clark Irwin Rosenstein...
...Bear witness!" cried the Tiger of France to his doctors, to his son Michael, his daughter Mme. Jacquemaire. "The Sister has promised that no cross will be placed above me when I die. You must help her keep that promise...
Dowagers with noses for good blood relish the royal whiff in Alba's surname of Stuart Fitz-James. England's witty James II, while Duke of York, amused himself with Arabella Churchill, created their son Duke of Berwick.? A son of Berwick acquired by marriage and heritage the Spanish dukedom of Alba. Except that his lineage and sporting tastes are almost royal. Alba can scarcely claim real ''fit- ness" to be Prime Minister. He is no man of business and great affairs like the Marquis de Urquito. Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct...