Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday. John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross; at Washington. Date: Jan. 26. Age: 75. To felicitate him at Red Cross headquarters came General John Joseph Pershing. Ogden Livingston Mills, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Cornelius Newton Bliss, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas...
...face modeled by Lukeman lurked the same inexplicable resemblance to Abraham Lincoln which has bred gossip of kinship between the two. Such report is based largely on the fact that Lincoln and Davis were born eight months apart, within 100 miles of each other in Kentucky. Dr. William Eleazar Barton, foremost Lincoln scholar, has flayed such gossip as baseless and untrue...
...library of Oberlin College in 1893, presided over a "support the President" luncheon. He called on speakers to tell briefly why Industry backed President Hoover's Dry program. Few kept to the subject; only one, Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan, mentioned the President by name. Dr. Arthur James Barton of Atlanta declared: "Three years more-shall I say seven years more?-of the present order of things at the White House and the whole country will be Dry in law and in fact...