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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that heroes are made, not born. But it is a fact that many a hero has unmade himself...
Founder Russell was born at Stillwater, Minn., in 1855. He was first general superintendent of the League, started branches in 36 states, traveled 50,000 miles a year for eight years. In 1915 he auto-mobiled from Manhattan to San Francisco on what was termed a "water wagon" tour. A male quartet accompanied him on this trip. He is one of the founders of the World League against Alcoholism...
...despite the discipline of the people, I must assume the task of governing the Italian people for 10 or 15 years more, if necessary, not because I am lustful for power but because it is my precise duty. ... [A pause, arms folded, then, challengingly] My successor it not yet born! [Applause, quickly stilled...
Lionel de Jersey Harvard was born at Lewisham, England, on June 3, 1893, the son of Mr. Thomas Harvard, a prosperous London business man. At the age of eighteen he was entered for Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where many of his ancestors, including John Harvard, had received their education. In the summer of 1911, however, he was persuaded by a group of Harvard graduates to come to America and enter Harvard. He arrived at the opening of the college term in September and was soon embarked upon the career of an undergraduate. His coming to Cambridge attracted wide attention, and much...
...Author. Born in Tennessee, with the current century, "Dick" Halliburton romped through Princeton University more bareheaded than most, running cross-country, editing a pictorial magazine, taking astonishing vacations, by the age of 21. Then he romped around the world in tramp ship forecastles, called it The Royal Road to Romance, said he was "living poetry instead of writing it." He talks volubly, cracks many jokes, threatens to write a novel called Hell...