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Bertrand H. ("Bert") Snell of Potsdam, N. Y., is a banker and cheesemaker. Short, florid, solid, he combines the rigidity of a businessman with the facility of a politician. There is small room for humor in his job of ramming resolutions through the Rules Committee and he seldom smiles. Amherst graduated him one year ahead of Calvin Coolidge and Dwight W. Morrow...
Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., might have been a pastor or Y. M. C. A. executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...
James Southworth ("Jim") Parker used to teach at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.). In 1898 he went to farming, in Salem, N. Y. His neighbours saw he had "book learnin' " and sent him to the legislature, then Congress (in 1913). He wears square-cut clothes, stutters a little, reads studiously. As chairman of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee he supervises much intricate legislation and shares with Cheesemaker Snell in commanding the Republican half of New York's big delegation...
...discovery and capture by police last week, of one Manuel Trejo y Morales, who gave Toral the pistol wherewith he slew Obregon, was widely rumored to open up a possibility that the Assassin will be retried in an effort to show that he and Trejo were the instruments of a general Roman Catholic plot against the life of General Obregon...
Sued for Divorce. Clare A. Briggs, famed Manhattan cartoonist (When, a Feller Needs a Friend, Skin-nay, Mr. & Mrs.); by Mrs. Ruth Owen Briggs of New Rochelle, N. Y...