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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyer West, good mixer that he was, drifted naturally into politics. He became State chairman, then national secretary of the G. O. P., retaining his good law practice and investments the while. Samuel Insull, astute businessman that he was, became the public utilities potentate of the Midwest. When government regulation of public utilities was found necessary, Mr. Insull also drifted naturally into politics, in the role of large contributor to campaign funds. Illinois is a Republican State so Mr. Insull gave chiefly to Lawyer West's party, though when he was quizzed two years ago about contributing heavily...
...South's greatest.*But they are famed scenically. And wealthy T. Coleman du Pont, whose health obliged him to resign last week as a Senator from Delaware, has long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky to get a Federal power licence, promising in return a 6,000-acre State park with highways and a bridge. Governor Flem D. Sampson, Congresswoman Langley...
Because the Congresses have refused to obey the Constitution and reapportion popular representation to fit the changes of U. S. population since 1910, many a State has more Representatives than it is proportionately entitled to and many another has less. Representative Fenn of Connecticut has long and often proposed a bill which, in its present form, would keep the House membership at 435 and reapportion the seats on the basis of the 1930 census, when taken. Estimates are that California would benefit most, gaining six seats. Next would be Michigan, gaining four seats; then Ohio, 3; New Jersey & Texas...
...succeed Mr. du Pont in the Senate, Governor Robinson appointed Daniel O. Hastings, 54, onetime Delaware Secretary of State and Supreme Court justice, a man well acquainted with the du Pont interests...
Applicants were Otto Kourim, 28, and his wife, Helen, 22, than whom no two persons could benefit more greatly from a discussion of birth control-always accepting the fact that birth control is, in the Eye of State and the Eye of Church, a deadly sin.* Mr. & Mrs. Kourim have been married five years. In three of those years, they had three children. Mr. Kourim's salary has been $24 a week. They had many things to quarrel over. Six months ago, they began to live separately. Both sought divorce on charges of cruelty and neglect...