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Fortnight ago, during a radio speech from his room in Louisville's Kentucky Hotel, the Governor consumed more than half the contents of a pitcher of ice water brought him by Waiter Joe Berry. State Finance Director Dan Talbott and a State trooper also drank some. All three reported themselves stricken with intestinal cramps and chills which Chandler doctors diagnosed as "cyanotic." The Governor stayed in bed for a week. The Governor's physicians insisted he had been almost fatally poisoned. The Governor's guards declared there had been prior poisoning attempts...
...hard-hitting group of officials of their own age. Lieutenant Governor (next year's candidate for Governor) is Keen Johnson, 41, former newshawk and writer for Happy's campaigns. Judge Brady Stewart of Paducah is Happy's official manager, but Johnson, State Finance Director Dan Talbott and State Highway Commissioner Bob Humphreys are the active jockeys. Knowing well that behind Barkley would be all the power of Federal patronage, they organized the State's 7,500 jobholders into an efficient Chandler machine. Campaign contributions of 2% salary (as in the Townsend-McNutt machine over in Indiana...
Died. Mrs. Harold Elstner Talbott, 71, first citizen of Dayton, Ohio, co-founder of the famed Westminster Choir and Choral School; of a heart attack; in Dayton. Rich Mrs. Talbott, long a Presbyterian Church choir singer, founded her group nine years ago with Dr. John Finley Williamson, financed it liberally, accompanied it on trips to 200 U. S. cities and, in 1929, a European tour. Busy with the Choir and other causes, Mrs. Talbott raised nine children, had 32 grandchildren for whom she purchased a 24-passenger...
...last week warned Dr. Benjamin Talbott Brooks, 50, independent consulting chemist of Manhattan, as the American Chemical Society opened its meeting in San Francisco. Dr. Brooks wanted to make his point especially clear to people who suppose that oil under U. S. ground will last hundreds of years. Distinguishing between shortage and actual exhaustion, Dr. Brooks, famed in his profession for research on refining methods, foresaw that oil dearth would be upon the nation in from five to eight years...
...reporter, she is rarely seen taking notes but no detail escapes her. The Enquirer ran 29½ columns of society news on the festival last week. Mr. Benjamin W. Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson's charming wit and humor." Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott of Dayton "wore her pearls and diamonds in her ears." "Miss Mary Elizabeth Rogan was a dainty charmer. . . ." Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson "was, as always, very distinguee." Mrs. Henry Probasco was "very Grande Dame." The Hinkle box was "a scene of constant va et vient." Mrs. E. W. Edwards' daughter...