Word: wharton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present. Within the heavy portals of the Union League Club, some of the faces the President saw, the hands he shook, belonged to Governor John S. Fisher (see p. 11), Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia, Senator-Elect William S. Vare and onetime (1922-27) Senator George Wharton Pepper, Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Railroad Presidents William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio), Patrick Edward Crowley (New York Central), Edward Loomis (Lehigh Valley) ; also Samuel Rea, onetime (1913-25) President of the Pennsylvania R. R., Lawyer Owen J. Roberts of the Government...
Campaign. A committee collecting money for Washington Cathedral last week received $250,000 and a $50,000 annuity. These were first scores in a new campaign announced the week before. Chairman of the committee is General John J. Pershing; executive chairman is George Wharton Pepper, onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; treasurer is Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. (Some thought that Secretary Mellon gave last week's gifts; they were anonymous). Associated with these are Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington, whose seat is in the cathedral, other clergymen and potent laymen...
...placid airings, last year whipped up its horses with a $10,000 prize for "the most interesting novel of any kind, sort or description," submitted by any writer, "whether born in London or Indianapolis." Readers looked for some tranquil, mildly effeminate tale, perhaps modeled on those of Edith Wharton. They were surprised on scanning the first installment of Jalna to discover a robust and brawny fiction, crowded with characters energetically alive, scampering into unexpected breaches of decorum. More than that, this book is one of the few important literary works which has come out of Canada in many a year...
...Vare-picked candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia, City Treasurer Harry A. Mackey, defeated J. Hampton Moore, a onetime Philadelphia Mayor, by 73,969 votes (unofficial count). This was over 100,000 votes less than Senator-elect Vare piled up in the Philadelphia pri-mary last Autumn against George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot. Elated, Candidate Moore and friends talked about another assault on the Vare machine at the November election, with an independent ticket. Philadelphians could thus look forward to two months more of Vare-style campaigning, which consists in spending dollars by the hundreds of thousands. A pro-Vare...
...TWILIGHT SLEEP-Edith Wharton-Appleton...