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...Other publicly untrousered high officials were John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Marion Zioncheck, Eugene J. Keogh and James P. Richards. Adams, when President, was observed swimming in the Potomac. Roosevelt, when Pre-ident, frequently made trans-Potomac swims when the river got in the way of his point-to-point hikes around Washington. Representative Zioncheck of Washington state waded in Manhattan's Prometheus Fountain, a week later was arrested in an advanced state of undress in the capital. Brooklyn's Representative Keogh and South Carolina's Representative Richards were de-pantsed in a sleeping car in Spain...
Bremerton, Wash. (pop. 11,053) is notable for its thriving U. S. Navy Yard and for its mayor, who rivals his State's late Congressman Marion Anthony Zioncheck as a wagging political cap-&-bells. When bespectacled little Tailor Jesse A. Knabb lost a mayoralty election in 1933, he jumped off a Bremerton dock before a battery of newsreel cameras. When he won the next one in 1936, his behavior became even stranger. Up to last week eccentric Mayor Knabb had made news...
Rubye Louise Nix Zioncheck, 21, onetime PWA typist, widow of Seattle's late eccentric Representative Marion Zioncheck, entered the University of Washington Home Economics School...
...Seattle is now 19th U. S. port of entry, still retains the breezy style of prospecting days. Owning its utilities, seat of the Uni versity of Washington (this year's West Coast representative for the Rose Bowl), Seattle still produces characters like the late eccentric Congressman Marion Zioncheck...
...Chamber of Deputies. It was not his constituents but the Chamber which deprived Philibert of his seat last March, after he had infringed French law in various eccentric ways, always escaping from the police to Belgium in a bright blue straw hat. Last week Incredible Philibert, the Zioncheck of France, was arrested after another fantastic chase and this time the vexed French gendarmes succeeded in having him placed under observation. They charged him with purloining commercial papers, demanded that he tell what he had done with them. "Gladly!" cried Philibert. "They are in Spain...