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Upon French Lick, famed Indiana spa 42 mi. from the centre of U. S. population, converged last week 23 Governors of 23 States for their 23rd annual convention. Through the broad lobby of the big, buff French Lick Springs Hotel, set among wooded hills, they marched back & forth smoking, joshing, talking politics. They drank Pluto water ("If nature won't, Pluto will") at 55° direct from the spring -or piping hot at the hotel buffet. Many were the regretful comments on the absence of their friend, the late great Tom Taggart, Democratic boss of Indiana and millionaire proprietor...
...President] campaign manager for New York." Soon afterward, the article said, Curtis-booster Glaser asked Administrator Campbell to approve a whiskey permit for a pharmacy in the Cornish Arms Hotel (against which padlock proceedings later were brought) and a permit for withdrawing 700 gal. of alcohol per month for Spa Chemical Co. (which later was caught illegally diverting this alcohol...
...Charles Curtis's name freely, made warm pre-election promises. After he had refused to grant either permit on Glaser's recommendation, Administrator Campbell received a letter from Director Doran beginning: "You are advised that Senator Curtis has again called my attention to the application of the Spa Chemical Co." The permit was then obtained. He quotes Director Doran as saying: "I believe you are absolutely right . . . but I should hate to have Senator Curtis on my tail." The Administrator commented last week: "I had plenty on my tail in the summer of the 1928 Hoover-Curtis campaign...
...mounted the rostrum "Uncle Arthur" looked strangely thin. No wonder. He had just lost a "stone" (14 lb.). Under doctors' orders he and Mrs. Henderson spent most of August gulping down the slimming waters of a Welsh spa (Llandrindod Wells), from which they hastened via London to Geneva. In pulpit tones, measured, slow and once or twice ringingly fervent, Mr. Henderson made last week the speech of his life, successfully courted fame by demanding that the League act to achieve Disarmament, cease piddling about "Security," the Frenchified nebulosity upon which M. Briand is trying to erect his famed "United...
Empire Day. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's father in law is Mayor Richard Annakin of Harrogate, famed "British spa.'' Both men are rugged pacifists. Last week Mayor Annakin cowed his City Council with an ultimatum. If they counted on him to take part in Harrogate's celebration of Empire Day (May 24), he said, they must strike the singing of ''Rule Britannia" off the program...