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...used his position as Anglo president to wangle profits on the side for himself. This was the suit which last fortnight came to trial on the third floor of San Francisco's post-office building in the marble and plaster-cupid encrusted courtroom of Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure...
Largely attended by oldsters, last week's Modern Woodmen convention at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a colorless affair where little was done but review finances, re-elect the man who has headed the order since 1903-Adolphus Robert Talbot. Big-featured President Talbot is a 78-year-old lawyer who was once the partner of William Jennings Bryan. A strait-laced Methodist, he does not smoke, drink, chew or play cards. Having fathered two daughters and a son, he lives with his wife in Lincoln, Neb., likes to putter with flowers. His chief boast: neither the Modern...
...upon the President and Fellows of Harvard College a matchless collection of casts of German sculpture. It was this Imperial gift that assured the Germanic Association, founded only the previous year, the success of its aspiration to create in America a monument to German culture. A few years later Adolphus Busch donated the money to build, and Professor Bestelmeyer of Munich designed, the present Germanic Museum...
...Francisco last week there was a brief attempt to prevent Banker Adams from moving up in the regular line of succession. When elections came round, however, not a murmur arose against either Mr. Adams or the hand-picked banker nominated to succeed him in 1938-Philip Adolphus Benson. A likable middle-of-the-roader, Banker Benson has been president of Brooklyn's Dime Savings Bank for four years, is 54, small, bright-eyed, quiet and an assiduous speaker on Thrift...
...Great gestures imperially to his invincible Macedonians. The Roman Legions' S.P.Q.R. banner rises in triumph over Hasdrubal. Joan of Arc, whose face resembles that of Whitney Museum Director Juliana Force, lifts her sword over the English at Orleans (1429). Charles Martel, William the Conqueror, Napoleon, Wellington, Kellermann, Gustavus Adolphus, Peter the Great, Charles of Sweden, Gates at Saratoga, Meade at Gettysburg, Joffre at the Marne- all are there for the edification and inspiration of West Pointers...