Word: atkinson
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Successively a provincial governor and Territorial Assemblyman, in 1909 Manuel Quezon made his first trip to Washington as Resident Commissioner. He had no vote in Congress, but he had a voice. That voice soon reached William Atkinson Jones of Warsaw, Va. Representative Jones had been to Manila with the first great Congressional junket in 1905, led by Secretary of War Taft. About the only tangible result of that trip was the betrothal of Representative Nicholas Longworth and Alice Roosevelt. But eight years later, the Democrats took over in Washington and Mr. Jones became Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee...
...with the barbarism of his own court, he made French the court language, sent Russian artists, most of whom were serfs, abroad to study, imported droves of Italian, German, French craftsmen. At least four Britons brought in were among the founders of Russian secular art: James Walker, John Augustus Atkinson, Edward Miles and Landscapist Richard Brompton...
...also printed the story of Edith Cavell, executed by the Germans as a British spy, and Dickens' Life of Christ. The latest Star exploit prompted irreverent newshawks in Toronto to revive a verse privately circulated last year to poke fun at the Star's Publisher Joseph Edward Atkinson, his son-in-law and vice president Harry Hindmarsh, his one-armed Editor Vernon Knowles. Composed by two members of Toronto's Writers Club, the verse is called "Ad Astra," sung by beery newsmen to the tune of "The Campbells Are Coming." Excerpts...
...Hindmarsh and Knowles Mr. Atkinson...
...this extravagant example of the footling misdirection of U. S. show business, Critic Brooks Atkinson of the Times wrote: "Moral: When a play has defied adaptation for two years, there must be something fundamentally wrong with...