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...were fitted up in the old Department of Commerce building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Chairman Meyer received 2,500 letters asking for jobs, inquiring about loans. Busiest man of all was Mr. Dawes, who quickly found himself a Washington apartment. ¶Last week at the age of 37 James Rumsey Beverley of Amarillo, Tex. found himself Governor of Porto Rico by appointment of the President. On the other side of the world George Charles Butte. Vice Governor of the Philippines, received the news with vast pride. His political protege had made good. Mr. Beverley studied law under Dr. Butte
...there is hope for a rebirth of interest in the world's doings. One has only to be witness to the hush of curious concern that falls over the History I assembled multitude when the lecturer draws a parallel to the Middle Ages from some recent world-event. Beverley M. Bowie...
Died. Right Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker, 83, Protestant Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Virginia, onetime Confederate Artilleryman; at Norfolk...
Back to England, a month ago, sailed a gossipy-garrulous young Britisher named Beverley Nichols. For some time he had been selling his books and lectures of familiar chit-chat about the world's Great and Near-Great, to the fame-hungry US. public. For four months he had edited a monthly smartchart called the American Sketch for Doubleday, Doran & Co. (TIME, Dec. 17). Upon leaving he told people that he was bored with the American Sketch and had decided to go home and pick up more chit-chat to put into more books for more money. Doubleday, Doran...
...above quotation was last week printed as coming word for word from the mouth of President Calvin Coolidge. Credit for this scoop goes to the London Sketch and to a smart, egotistical young man named Beverley Nichols, who led British readers to believe that President Coolidge had spoken those very words. Perhaps Mr. Nichols, careless in the matter of quotation marks, felt that what the President actually said about art required an Oxonian polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American...