Republicans seek Snell leadership to block Hoover bid
In New York a faction led by Charles Dewey Hilles pushes to send the delegation to Bertrand Snell, aiming to block Hoover Borah and Knox. The piece traces New York GOP factional power since Barnes and Wadsworth, noting farm policy and the 1930s shift as farmers seek substitutes for AAA.
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Washington
New York State
Bill Barnes
Charles Dewey Hilles
Empire State
Bertrand H. Snell
Snell
House of Representatives
Hoover
Hilles
New York
Herbert Hoover
Borah
Colonel Knox
Robert H. Lucas
William Howard Taft
Taft
White House
James W. Wadsworth
House
Wadsworth
Roosevelt
Barnes
Whitman
Calder
Doctor Copeland
Bob Wagner
Farley
al Smith
J. Henry Roraback
Connecticut
Dave Mulvane
Kansas
Edwin Collins Walks Golden Gate Catwalk Record
Edwin Collins completes a mile long stroll on the Golden Gate Bridge catwalk, the first human to walk the newly strung path between the two 746 foot towers.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Edwin Collins
Golden Gate Bridge
Nominee Mrs Herbert Hoover Receives Girl Scout Nomination
Mrs Herbert Hoover appears pleased as the sole nomination for president of the National Girl Scouts is announced at a San Francisco convention. Mrs Harry Mudd, a Girl Scout official, stands to the right.
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Herbert Hoover
National
Girl Scouts
San Francisco
Harry Mudd
Sacramento Grand Jury Probes State Treasury Defalcation
The Sacramento County Grand Jury convenes to investigate the disappearance of William B. Shearer a 74 year old state cashier and the missing $24 000 in public funds as part of the defalcation case. Northern and southern California join to push high tension line removal from airports due to fatal plane crashes.
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Sacramento County Grand Jury
State Treasury
William B. Shearer
California
Bruins Rally To One Sided Win Over Utah State
UCLA opens with a decisive victory over Utah State and is hailed as the season’s best improver on the coast. The upcoming Stanford clash looms as a major test as coach Tiny Thornhill’s squad, led by speed powered offense, seeks to prove its mettle against strong rivals across the Pacific Coast Conference.
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Passamaquoddy
Eastport
Maine
Campobello
Roosevelt
Mackinaws
Utah State
U. C. L. A. Bruins
Stanford
Bruin
Tiny Thornhill
Indians
San Jose State
University of San Francisco
Bill Spaulding
California
Oregon
Portland
New York Musings on Leaders, Ladles, and Hats
A collage of New York figures and scenes from 1935 notes editors like Edwin Balmer and James Gordon Bennett, tall tales of Bennett’s aura and rival Pulitzer, cap fashions among elites, and a digressive tour through personalities, places, and curiosities on Broadway and Herald Square.
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New York
Fannie Kilbourne
Dot
Will
Paul Wilson
Edwin Balmer
Ward Morehouse
Tallulah Bankhead
Miriam Hopkins
Danville
Jack Wheeler
Aquarium
Esquire
Vyvyan Donner
James Gordon Bennett
The
Herald
Beagler
Joseph Pulitzer
Bennett
Paris
Herald Square
Gladstone
Grandfathers Glee Club Stages Old Time Concert in Lambeth
Nine grandfathers sang at a Lambeth concert with one grandfather as instrumentalist and a seventy four year old call boy. Younger audience members and grandmothers joined in singing nostalgic tunes such as Darling Mabel Running Up and Down Stairs and The Girl in the Pinafore Dress.
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Lambeth
England
Mabel
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Malin Craig
Ninth Corps
Presidio
U. S. Army
Washington State College
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Steamroller W. S. C
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Los Angeles
St. Mary’s College of Pacific
Howard Jones
Alonzo Stagg
Madigan
Stagg
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Metropolis
Grand
Bryan
Sockless
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Gen. Coxey
Charles Chapin
Evening World
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Roy McCardell
Bob Edgren
Boseman Bulger
Billy Gaxton
Dwight Fiske
Harold Vanderbilt
George M. Cohan
William Goodby Loew
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Joe Laurie, Jr
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Marie
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Sahara
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
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