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Editor Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald, 44-year-old Republican, Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
Mississippi was the other State to elect a Governor. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was the Democratic nominee. The voters knew him well-Odd Fellow, Elk, Mason, Baptist, Woodman, etc., etc., onetime (1908-12) State Senator, onetime (1912-16) Lieutenant Governor, onetime (1916-20) Governor. His opponents revivified bribery charges of which Mr. Bilbo was acquitted in 1916,- but election is a mere gesture in Mississippi. The Democratic nomination is all that matters. Nominee Bilbo became Governor-elect Bilbo once again...
...error. Calvin Coolidge became a member of the college fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta at Amherst College. His Secretary should have said that he is not a Mason, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Woodman...
...John Woodman and Crevecoeur," Professor Murdock, Harvard2, English...
...Chautauqua-looking gentleman recently enjoyed a vacation under the cocoanut trees-his first long rest in 30 years. Automobilists who had Nebraska license plates (25,000 of them, he said) came to him, urged him to come home and run for the governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan, Baptist, Odd Fellow, Woodman, onetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic Vice Presential candidate in 1924, has returned to his home. He now stands unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Against him the Republicans will probably nominate (in the primaries August 10) Governor Adam McMullen. The political recrudescence of the brother* of the "Great Commoner" depends...