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...yard free style--James L. Caldwell (H); second, William B. Atkinson (H); third, Page...
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...
...fortnight onetime Member of Parliament is Cyril Atkinson who at 61 sits upon the King's Bench Division of Britain's High Court of Justice. Fond of golfing, fishing, motoring, he has to remember a raft of things which few U. S. judges ever heard of. He must remember to wear his girdle, scarf, tippet, beaver hat, full-bottomed wig, ermine-trimmed hood & mantle on State occasions or when attending St. Paul's Cathedral. He must never wear his scarlet robe before Their Majesties the King & Queen. Yet he must mark the 24 Red Letter Days when...
...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...
...Hindmarsh and Knowles Mr. Atkinson...