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...itinerary began fortnight ago when he detrained one mid-afternoon at Indianapolis. In five and a half hours, he visited the city post office, promised construction of an addition to it, paid a courtesy call on Catholic Bishop Ritter, sent picture postcards to his children, conferred with Tom Taggart Jr., attended the largest banquet (2,100 covers) ever served in the Claypool Hotel, delivered a speech denouncing Indiana's Republican Senator Robinson for obstructing the New Deal...
...Catholic, not even a churchgoer. Born of poor parents some 60 years ago in the hills near French Lick, he made his way alone, accumulated a fortune in the hotel business and in American Circus Corp. At West Baden, a mile from French Lick where the late Thomas ("Tom") Taggart, Indiana's longtime Democratic boss, operated a famed spa (Pluto Water), Mr. Ballard built a handsome 500-room hotel, surrounded by 585 landscaped acres. Until the Depression West Baden Springs Hotel prospered. With the decrease in business, Mr. Ballard made ready to sell out and retire. In casting about...
...gruesome story comes into clearer light when Miss Taggart, supervisor of nurses and Tammany election captain confesses that each year a large number of people from the Home register and vote illegally. Tammany is only incidentally sadistic; as over, the fundamental motive is the aggrandizement of the Hall, a chase which hesitates at no means to achieve its end. Its long reign of power has made Tammany careless, and Mayor LaGuardia's investigations are gradually developing a complete picture of its makeup and methods. The people of New York may tolerate graft and financial corruption as unavoidable evils, but, cynical...
...Taggart Whipple...
...practice, and is taking rows twice daily under Coach Whiteside. The seatings, now definitely selected are as follows: Stroke, S. S. Drury, Jr. '35; 7, F. J. Swayze '33, 6, A. D. Robertson '33; 5, J. W. Peirce '33; 4, Arthur Beane '36; 3, R. S. Clark '36; 2, Taggart Whipple '34; bow, A. L. Nickerson '33; cox, H. H. Bissell...