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...McKinley, Hanna, Foraker, Hay. President Garfield's sons were still on the scene. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, Senator, Secretary of State, did not die until 1900. Ohio politics was a vivid mixture of business (two parts), religion (two parts) and state pride (one part). The twin veins of politics and religion in Mark Hanna appeared as twin veins of business and religion in Ohio's great industrialists of that day, such as John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland and the Gambles and Procters of Cincinnati. A purer vein of religious sentiment was springing forth in a southern...
...independent vote that decides elections. In each of the 15 precincts in Cambridge. I have four or five personal friends who have lists of all the voters," said Mayor Quinn, striking a lighter vein. "I have them bring to the polls only certain men, and those men I know will vote for Quinn. But you can't do that in the state campaigns," he declared...
...noticeably of the present generation in their use of subtly-varied grays, with occasional accents of stronger color, in reaction to the intense broken color used by the impressionists to express a naturalistic effect of light. As compared with most American and British painting done in the same vein, there is a pleasant lightness of touch in most of these pictures. After our over-seriousness, even the obvious "fooling" in examples like the "Europa" and the "View of the Seine" are a delightful relief...
...school between Mercer and Grove City, at 2 p.m. today, Mrs. Jack McCall, aged 30, wife of a coal miner, pulled a butcher knife from beneath her long coat and drew it across the throat of her 7-year-old son, Lawrence, severing the boy's jugular vein and causing his death in a few moments...
...humorist, is a bizarre thing. He views it through eyes that select fancies and foibles and reduce all else to hazy indistinction. Only occasionally, when fads are scarce, he must turn to what is merely new, whether or not it possesses the gaudy qualities that best suit his vein. In hard times like these, when Mah Jong, Princeton, the crossword puzzle, channel swimming, Lindbergh, Mayor Thompson and Hickman are no longer news, he is obliged to seize whatever the day offers. Such understanding of an old, yet somehow ever new, problem explains the consideration of the Reading Period...