Most Senators get into the news for what they say. Retiring Senator Robert Nelson Stanfield of Oregon is news for what he does. In September, 1925, he was arrested on charges of throwing crockery drunkenly around a restaurant. The case against him was dropped, but the incident contributed to his defeat in the Senatorial elections last year. Then in July, 1926, he fought a menacing undertow for 15 minutes at Ocean City, Md., rescued a drowning woman. Last week he was greeted with a law suit; two Manhattan modistes demanded that he pay...
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