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...minor reason for his victory was that he shrewdly took with him to Washington the publicity-wise ex-secretary of the War Industries Board, Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime executive editor of the defunct New York World. At headquarters in Washington's swank Hotel Carlton...
Towering, robust Congressman Bacon, son of the late Ambassador to France, pulled a potent oar on Harvard's crew. After Harvard Law School he went into banking, dabbled in politics, went to war. His swank constituency has kept him steadily in Congress since 1923. Privately he moves in one of Washington's tightest little social sets, but among his fellow Congressmen he plays the good fellow with convincing affability. Ruddy, blue-eyed and handsome, he was once picked by famed Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as the ideal type of "future American." ("What are they trying to do, make...
...that he "hasn't missed a Harvard-Yale football game since 1905," has lately been specializing on the South where Negro delegates to the Republican convention are to be had for a price. Last fortnight disgruntled Southern Democrats had a chance to look Republican Fish over at swank Aiken, S. C. Last week he spoke by radio over a Southern hookup, inviting all those who were "deceived and disgusted" with their national Administration to "cross over" to Candidate Fish...
...understand why.") Long before Mr. Whitney was ready for Groton, Mr. Gay was clerking in a drygoods house. Later he went into insurance, then coal, finally banking. He bought his seat on the Exchange in 1911. Today Mr. Whitney likes to ride to the Essex Fox Hounds in swank Far Hills, N. J. Mr. Gay prefers to dig in his garden...
...South End ragamuffins picketed the annual show of Boston's swank Vincent Club with placards demanding the "resignation" from the club of Mary Curley, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley and not a Vincent member. Picked up by police, the ragamuffins said that Kermit Roosevelt Jr. and another Harvard freshman hired them as a joke on the clubgirls...