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Mortimer Leo Schiff is the only "son"?Jacob Henry Schiff's?and he is the youngest (born 1877) of the present four partners. Like President Coolidge, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Arthur Curtiss James, Frank Waterman Stearns, Herbert Lee Pratt, Bruce Barton, Alexander Meiklejohn, the late Henry Ward Beecher, Harlan F. Stone, Frederick H. Gillett, Robert Lansing, Charles E. Mitchell, Joseph B. Eastman, Henry C. Hall, Frank J. Goodnow, he is an Amherst man. Unlike them, he was never graduated, because in his sophomore year he decided he did not want to be just a "rich man's son." He left...
...Gospel: "It is not a narcotic to superinduce numbness or oblivion to the wrongs of this life. It is a trumpet blast echoing along the horizons of the world, challenging to combat every evil, every sin, every wrong." This man was a worthy successor to Henry Ward Beecher (incumbent 1847-87), Lyman Abbott (incumbent 1888-99) and Newell Dwight Hillis (incumbent 1899-1924)* as pastor of Plymouth Church, decided the fifteen quizzing ministers. Forthwith, they installed him-Plymouth's fourth pastor since its establishment...
...sophisticates took occasion to criticize the structure known as the Delmonico Building, comparing the grace of the tower to that of "an over-grown grain elevator", and found that legal complications ensued. The Delmonico Building, unfortunately for the New Yorker, did not "just grow" a In Harriet Beecher Stowe, but was designed by an architect, one no less than Mr. H. Craig Severance, who appears to be extremely sensitive to derogatory remarks about his work. At any rate he believes that the New Yorker should pay him $500,000 for the slander to his professional name and so firm...
...bosomed virgin "intensely moved" by Abolition, parlor feminism and the Great Minds of the day. Lanice has "evinced genius" in articles for Godey's Ladies' Book, and Cousin Pauline burns to enroll her among the Great Minds-profound Mr. Emerson, droll Dr. Holmes, dowdy Mrs. Stowe (Harriet Beecher), majestic Professor Longfellow...
...from John Drew and J. Ramsay Mcdonald, from William Randolph Hearst and John Grier Hibben, from Colonels George Harvey and Edward M. House, from Sir Lionel Phillips and Masuki Otagawa (Japanese mine owner), from George Gordon Battle and Daniel Guggenheim, from Robert Herrick and Sol B. Joel, from Charles Beecher Warren and John J. McCarty. The list has almost no end, composed as it is of men in all walks of life?ambassadors, financiers, politicians, scientists, admirals, artists. And the names of most of these men are not merely lent as they might be to a worthy charity; they...