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Watson, and not upon the more Hooveresque candidate. Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington. Senator Watson is 64. Two-thirds of his lifetime has been devoted to politics. The measure of his greatness is that if one were asked to pick a man in Washington who best typifies the popular idea of an old-style politician the choice would almost inevitably fall upon him. The Watson handshake is magnificent. The Watson cordiality to constituents, the Watson geniality towards colleagues, are vasty and impressive. The Watson oratory has been variously and unkindly described as "gusty," "oleaginous" and even "blowsy...
...some things for friendship," he explained. Mr. Lamont's friends in Chicago were amused. Said Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals: "We Methodists believe in repentance." Said F. Scott McBride: "We always welcome converts." ¶ In Philadelphia detectives arrested two Negro youths for wearing corsets within which were fastened hot water bottles containing whiskey. The charge was illegal transportation. ¶ One of Mr. Lament's former A. A. P. A. associates was Banker Charles H. Sabin of Manhattan. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin,- Republican National Committeewoman from New York, campaigned...
Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick last fall entered the U.S. bringing 15 trunkfuls of personal effects which she valued at two million dollars. She declined to pay duty, on the ground that she was a nonresident U.S. citizen whose home is in Paris. Unsympathetic customs officials impounded her baggage, declaring that a wife's residence was with her husband, and that Harold Fowler McCormick lives in Chicago (TIME...
About every two years the flag officers of the Navy complete a tour of duty, are shuffled up and dealt anew to the chief naval commands so that they may gain experience in many posts. Last week Charles Francis Adams, new Secretary of the Navy, announced the first of the changes due this year. Chief among them were...
When the S-4 tragedy off Provincetown in 1927 added emphasis to the S-51 tragedy off Block Island two years before, the Navy Department began doing things to make submarines safer. Last week the experiments continued...