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...surplus while all other large municipalities were wallowing in deficits. Since then, however, Milwaukee's finances and fame have gone steadily downhill until last week some 46,000 of its citizens were on record for the recall of their longtime Mayor, Socialist Daniel Webster Hoan. So unconcerned was Mayor Hoan with the fight on him and his policies that he went off fishing in northern Wisconsin...
...Ames '32, C. H. Hageman, Jr. '32, Alfred Kidder II, '33, Oscar Sutermeister '32, Vernon Munroe, Jr. '31, R. I. W. Westgate, H. M. Smallwood, R. W. Meadows '32, E. S. Amazeen '31, K. N. Marshall, J. C. Hubbard, Jr. '31, A. N. Webster '31, C. H. Burgess '31, M. A. Francon, Vahan Moushegian '32, A. B. Martin, 2nd, '30, R. H. Phelps '30, E. A. Mays, Jr. '32, J. D. Gordan, Jr., J. H. Pratt '30, L. H. Butterfield, F. W. Hoeing, W. W. Foshay '31, J. H. Gleason...
...Narrow Comp so far are P. B. Beal, O. H. Emmons, R. M. Farlow, B. L. Fairbanks, E. H. Pringle, A. G. Webster, and H. A. White, Broad Compromise Race has atracted the following: G. A. Emerson, Jr., S. B. Flint, W. J. Keville, J. A. McAllen, J. P. Riesman, P. D. Rowan, and C. P. Ware...
Died. Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, Viscount Burnham, 70, retired owner-publisher of the London Daily Telegraph, last individual proprietor of a London daily; of heart disease; in London. He served on the Simon Commission in India, stoutly opposed Indian autonomy. He presided over the International Labor Conference (Geneva, 1921, 1922, 1926); was chairman of the committee which rebuilt the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. His newspaper, handed down through three generations from his grandfather Joseph Moses Levy, carried more U. S. news, unbiased and friendly, than any other British sheet...
...Klux Klan. The Harding inauguration. Oil derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred...