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...Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Pennsylvania dropped in to see the President and ask whether Countess Karolyi might not come to visit him at Norristown (see CABINET...
...Department had authorized its consul in Paris to refuse a visa to Countess Karolyi, who had planned returning to this country for a lecture tour. It seems that she had planned to make a lecture tour and incidentally pay a social visit to her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Norristown, Pa. Finding that the State Department objected, she canceled her lecture engagements, thus making her visit purely social. It does not appear that the State Department had any official notification of the change in her plans, nor is it evident whether such knowledge would have made...
...Ralph Beaver Strassburger. Mr. Strassburger is a person of some activity in Republican politics in Pennsylvania. When ho heard of the State Department's action he rushed down to Washington. He had an interview with President Coolidge and was doubtless respectfully treated. He had an interview with Secretary Kellogg and got no satisfaction. He told the Secretary of State that the Countess had canceled her lecture tour. He asked the Secretary of State on what grounds Countess Karolyi was refused a visa. Mr. Kellogg replied that the State Department had confidential information and refused to disclose it. Mr. Strassburger...
...general practitioner - that twinkling beaver, who would cure typhoid, cardiac lesions, Bright's, Brown's and his Old Widow Smith's diseases with a pat on the cheek and a few friendly words, who would write prescriptions for warts, chilblains, the horrors, and baggy pants-is doomed to give way to the specialist, people have declared...
...seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet Greer put on his beaver hat. He turned from the ledger where the black blot was spreading; down to the harbor he went, took ship, sailed off in the dawn, Partner Parton with him. That was long ago; nobody knows what became of him; only Jervaile was left to tell the story...