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...Senate fight. Varemen approached Senator Grundy about a Grundy-Brown ticket. Senator Grundy not only spurned this alliance but also, without consulting anybody, announced that his candidate for Governor was Samuel S. Lewis, onetime State Treasurer. Promptly, with the help of William Wallace Atterbury, President of the Pennsyl- vania R. R. and Republican National Committeeman, Boss Vare chose Secretary of Labor James John Davis as his senatorial candidate, made a Davis-Brown ticket to oppose the Grundy-Lewis ticket (TIME, March...
...very limited revision," although it provided for increases in 42 of Pennsylvania's industries, representing additional protection of almost a half-billion dollars. But said Lobbyist Grundy: "Rates don't mean anything. They're not worth a row of three hoots. The increases for Pennsyl vania are so insignificant that they don't amount to anything. What counts are the administrative provisions of the bill." He explained that his lobbying method included no publicity, no "press bureaus' but direct personal contact with Senators and Congressmen who write tariff bills...
...voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...
...hours Mr. Lewis disappeared. It was learned that he had gone to an inn on the outskirts of Harrisburg, there to confir in long-night scerecy with various in henchmen. He returned, said nothing except that a strike in the Pennsyl vania counties of Luzerne, Lackawanna, Schuylkill would certainly be called Sept. 1 unless the operators met his terms...
...Coolidge (Professor of French, Hobart College) researching in "Cal-vania," chased the Coolidge surname back to England and thence to Normandy through seven transmogrifications: Coolidge, Cooledge, Cowlidge, Coledge, Cullidge, Cullinge, Coulinge, de Colynge...