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James Barr Ames, of Wayland...
...since a Pulitzer Prize was awarded to an editorial on the subject. Therefore gossipy tongues were set wagging last week when President Hoover picked a Nebraskan to be Agriculture's member of the Federal Reserve Board, vice Edward Henry Cunningham, deceased. The new man is big, husky, talkative Wayland W. Magee, 49, of Bennington. Mr. Magee did not have Senator Norris' endorsement, but he had the next best thing, the endorsement of Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska. Senator Norris' close political crony. Others who urged his appointment included Senator Carey of Wyoming, Samuel McKelvie...
...appear to know more about a piece of music than the man who wrote it. Much of Stravinsky's Oedipus, despite its rigid pattern, is powerful dramatic music, worthy of translation. So, for Philadelphians, last week Stokowski proceeded to translate it, using modernistic idioms: The speaker (Negro Wayland Rudd; recalled the story in English through a loud speaker attached to the proscenium arch. On a platform above the singers, puppets 15 feet tall represented the Greek protagonists, themselves nothing but puppets manipulated by the gods...
Cried shocked Conservative Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Wayland, as he moved rejection of the bill: "Just fancy a bottle of rare old crusted port labeled 'poison...
Brother Charlie. When Charles Wayland ("Brother Charlie") Bryan, brother of the late Great Commoner, was Mayor of Lincoln (1915-17), conservative citizens thought that he, with his municipal coal yards and employment agencies, was pretty progressive. When as Governor (1923-25) he began the direct sale of gasoline in competition with private companies, the same people were sure he was a radical. When last week he delivered his inaugural address as Governor for the second time, they were convinced that he was downright revolutionary. Were he as able as his late Brother William he would be to these people infinitely...