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Montana. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, opportunistically appeared as a campaigner against Senator Thomas James Walsh, Dry Roman Catholic, Democratic nominee for reelection. Wizard Evans was inferentially supporting Wet Catholic Albert John Galen, Republican Senatorial nominee. His explanation: Senator Walsh is much abler and more experienced than Nominee Galen, more capable politically...
Four men's air derbies and one for women finished at the airport, were won as follows: from Miami, Art Killips; from Hartford, Conn., J. Wesley Smith; from Brownsville, Tex., Jack Livingston; from Seattle, Wash., John Blum; from Long Beach, Calif., Gladys O'Donnell...
...help from a potent board of trustees. Among them: Robert Julius Thorne, one-time president of Montgomery Ward & Co.; Charles F. Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; Albert Blake Dick Jr. (mimeographs); President DeForest Hulburd of Elgin National Watch Co.; Clayton Mark (steel); Cyrus Hall McCormick (harvesters) ; President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Ry.; Louis Franklin Swift (packer...
Significance. Washington Republicans put Senator Wesley Jones (coauthor of the Five & Ten law) between a political devil and a deep sea of wet voters...
...Oakie went to school at De La Salle High, left school to be a telephone clerk for a brokerage house, left brokerage to be a chorus boy in Innocent Eyes. He took funny bit-parts in several revues, then went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Wesley Ruggles who cast him for nothing much in Finders Keepers. Critics picked him out, Paramount put him on contract, recently made him a star. At parties he does imitations of Maurice Chevalier and Al Jolson. He is parsimonious, reads hardly anything, drives a Ford, is afraid of cross-eyed people...