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Meanwhile, in the offices of the New York World, Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope read the despatches. It was a good news story, duly featured. Then a week later, he heard rumors that there was more to be found in Aiken than what came in the despatches. His dynamic brain developed action. He called for one of his ablest, muckraking reporters, Oliver H. P. Garrett, said: "Garrett, go to South Carolina. . . ." The World must still crusade. Reporter Garrett went; and for the last fortnight the World's columns have bristled with his stories...
...James Asheton Bayard II, Senator (1851-64), resigned his office on being required to take an "iron clad oath" of allegiance to the Government. He was later reappointed to the Senate and served until...
...Thomas Francis Bayard, father of the present Senator, was the greatest of all the clan. In 1861 he made a speech which is said 'to have kept Delaware from seceding from Union. He was a Senator (1869-85), a Secretary of State and first U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Senator Bayard's wife is a daughter of the late Dr. Alexis I. du Pont and a cousin of Senator T. Coleman du Pont...
...present Senator Bayard also had a great-great-grandfather, Richard Basset't, who was a Senator (1789-93) and a Governor of Delaware...