Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mostly committed to Candidate Lowden as second choice and Non-Candidate Dawes for third. An embarrassing feature was the defeat of Senator Simeon D. Fess as a delegate-at-large. The G. O. P. had already picked him as convention keynoter. But his admission to the convention, it was thought, could be arranged by obtaining for him the proxy of some elected delegate. Though he had formally stood for Candidate Willis, the Hooverites cogitated the gesture of offering Keynoter Fess the proxy of one of their...
...heart attack in 1923 left him, his friends thought, less equable of temper than before. Perhaps this contributed to his defeat for the Speakership in 1925. Failing health did not, however, impair his capacity for work. He continued at the head of the Appropriations Committee, devoting even his recesses to study...
...first the investigation was confined to an examination of county jail prisoners, but later it was thought advisable to extend the study to the more serious offenders in penal institutions of the State, and to the criminal and the civil insane. The investigation so begun has now developed, on the anthropological side, to a survey of criminals in selected areas of the country at large...
...clock tomorrow night, the Reverend W. R. Matthews, M.A., will deliver another of the William Belden Noble lectures in Emerson D. The subject of his talk will be "The Changing Background of Religious Thought...
August Heckscher, 79½, zinc, steel and real estate potentate, philanthropist, is apt to die any minute now, thought Frieda Hempel, 42¾, retired soprano. So she filed application with the Manhattan Supreme Court for an order to have Mr. Heckscher testify immediately concerning his alleged agreement to pay her $48,000 a year for the rest of her life. She claims that she gave up an income of $200,000 a year on the concert stage to help Mr. Heckscher in his philanthropic work...