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...Deal. To force that issue he must have a deciding voice in the national convention which writes the Republican platform, picks the Republican candidate. To run in California's primary, however, would have been to risk repudiation in his home State, to endanger his whole aim. Three stanch allies he had who shared his aims: Publisher George Toland Cameron of the San Francisco Chronicle; Publisher Joseph Russell Knowland of the Oakland Tribune; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times. That gave the ex-President one Old Guard paper in each of California's three metropolitan areas. Several...
Died. George Woodward Wickersham, 77, corporation lawyer, U. S. Attorney-General under President Taft, stanch advocate of the League of Nations; of a heart attack; in a Manhattan taxicab. In 1929 he headed President Hoover's National Commission on Law Observance and Law Enforcement. The 286-page report, issued in 1931, equivocated on Prohibition, aroused a storm of controversy, both wets and drys claiming victory. None of the recommendations became...
...last week President Crocker's cronies gave him a big luncheon in the Pacific Union Club to celebrate his 75th birthday. As conservative as his bank, old Mr. Crocker is a stanch Republican whose years have been filled with civic duties. He headed the committee that welcomed Charles Evans Hughes when that GOPresidential nominee made his ill-fated visit to California in 1916. He was vice president of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, served on the board of regents of the University of California for two decades. In poor health of late, Mr. Crocker has been spending more & more...
...King is furious." Never to date has the Sailor King seen why for the sake of some blackamoors his beloved war ships should be risked in the Mediterranean. The British Royal Family is on definitely friendly terms with the Italian Royal Family. As a friend, George V is stanch, and the salty admirals who are the King's cronies over late Scotch nightcaps have never considered the League worth a brave man's belch...
...opinion of Baltimore's Federal District Judge William Caldwell Coleman, who had pronounced the Act unconstitutional "in its entirety" (TIME, Nov. 18). They also had the opinion of a Philadelphia law firm and of a Philadelphia lawyer, onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper. A stanch Republican, a devout Episcopalian whose portly figure is as familiar in Philadelphia as the facade of Independence Hall, Lawyer Pepper set a U. S. record for per-vote campaign expenditures when he ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1926 ($2.42 per Bepper ballot...