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...Stokes 2nd and Commissioner Mathews." It was no clerical blunder. The modest Commissioner made a point of asking the publicity department to place ahead of his own the name of the young lawyer who helped him-Isaac Newton Phelps ("Ike") Stokes 2nd, son of Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral and a member of the pious copper & railroad house of Phelps -Dodge -Stokes -James...
...last fortnight, mousy-looking Paul C. Yates called up the Islands' men of God to prove that gentle, idealistic Governor Pearson was somehow a blackguard. Witness Yates, ousted Pearson assistant and a prime instigator of 'the investigation, produced an affidavit from an Anglican clergyman named Anson whom he described as "dean of the white ministers in the Islands." The Rev. E. G. Anson bore witness that Governor Pearson was "an awful liar, thief and hypocrite." Witness Yates also offered a letter he had received from a Roman Catholic priest named Leo St. Laurence. Wrote Father St. Laurence...
...large cross-section of the U. S. such titbits of news meant one thing: a new baseball season was at hand. Instigated by famed "Cap" Anson, who took Billy Sunday and the rest of his Chicago Colts to Hot Springs, Ark. in 1886, baseball training trips have long since been recognized as valuable less for reconditioning baseball players than for rekindling the excitement of their public. Last week, as the soth training season ended, 16 major-league teams were on their way North for the opening of the 1935 season this week...
...first twenty years of its existence Phelps Dodge Corp. sold cotton and tin. When in 1833 a brand new warehouse collapsed on the heads of his fusty clerks, pious old Anson G. Phelps reorganized the business, began selling lumber, iron, steel, insurance. Next Phelps Dodge acquired a patch of ground in Bisbee, Ariz, and began to dig. In 1906 it announced in all New York newspapers: "Owing to the great increase of our Copper and Railroad business in the West, we have been obliged to give up the selling of all metals except Copper...
...when Fence Orations could appear in print, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., speaking for the Sophomores, finally left his banter and said, "Gentlemen, may your class always meet here as a unit, forgetting all social divisions. May there never be a distinction between rich man and poor man in this corner of the campus, but let the Fence-bond of friendship for your class be based simply upon 'Yale and '97'. . . Every man knows what the institution of these few rails has meant for the friendship of this College. Guard them from mutilation. Protect them from misuse...