National Affairs: Political Notes: Sep. 22, 1924

In Northampton, Mass., James Lucey, famed cobbler friend of Calvin Coolidge, gained the First Hampshire County District Republican nomination for the Massachusetts Assembly. Aged 68, Cobbler Lucey has never before competed for public office.

In Manhattan, Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's famed Governor, un- derwent an operation for the removal of an obstruction to the duct of one of his salivary glands. Said he: "The obstruction had to be removed . . . it makes talking difficult for a few days. . . . Meanwhile, the less I say the sooner the cut in the side of my neck will heal."

In Manhattan, 500 women were "graduated" from the Speakers' School of the Women's National Republican Club. Said Mrs. Grace Vanamee, conductor of the classes: "Dress plainly and avoid cosmetics when you are about to make a speech."

In Connecticut, Hiram Bingham, Yale professor, was nominated by the Republicans for Governor. Prof. Bingham was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1922, has headed three exploration parties to South America, is married to a granddaughter of the late Charles Tiffany, famed Manhattan jeweler.

In Terre Haute, it was reported that Warren T. McCray, onetime Governor of Indiana, who was sentenced to Atlanta penitentiary for using mails to defraud (TIME, May 12), is now functioning as a teacher in the prison Sunday School.

In Manhattan, A. Mitchell Palmer,

Pennsylvanian, Attorney General in the Wilson Cabinet, commented on a report that President Coolidge would make a campaign tour of the country: "I hope he will. It would be a splendid thing for the Democratic Party. The people would get a chance to see him and learn his limitations."