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...highest honors of the 1927 class; he was to make the valedictory address. When, later, he rose to speak, an 18-year-old oval-cheeked boy, he reminded auditors of an able man whom he had never seen-the late U. S. Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, his great grandfather, who died...
Chief Delegate Henry M. Robinson of the U. S. delegation was appointed chairman of the Industry Commission. On the Commerce Commission sat U. S. delegates Norman Davis and Dr. Julius Klein. Finally U. S. delegate Alonzo Taylor took his seat with the Agriculture Commission...
Other U. S. delegates: 1) Norman H. Davis, 48, Manhattanite, onetime (1919-20) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and (1920-21) Under Secretary of State; 2) John William O'Leary, 51, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.; 3) Dr. Alonzo Englebert Taylor, 56, Director of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University; 4) Dr. Julius Klein, 40, Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the U. S. Department of Commerce...
...European entanglements, the President, on the invitation of the League of Nations, appointed five delegates to the World Economic Conference at Geneva. The five, experts all, are Henry M. Robinson, onetime Dawes Commissioner; Norman H. Davis, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Under Secretary of State; Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, agricultural economist from Stanford University; John W. O'Leary, President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Julius Klein, Director of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. The President let it be known that he regarded Dr. Klein as the best informed...
...Amos Alonzo Stagg, football coach of the University of Chicago: "During a practice scrimmage between my Varsity and freshman teams, I, aged 64, failed to skip out of the way of a crashing line play, was bowled over and buried at the bottom of a pile of some 20 kicking, thrashing athletes. When this pile was removed, there I lay, senseless. Water soon restored me and up I leaped to berate the Varsity for failing to check the freshmen's attack. . . . On Saturday, the Varsity lost to Illinois...