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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congressman White, 49, was born in Maine, graduated from famed Bowdoin* college, went promptly to Washington as a political clerk. Outside of Maine and the District of Columbia he has never earned a nickel; result: he is a skillful legislator...
Miss Giannini has just returned from a concert tour in Europe, where the music world of Paris, London and Berlin acclaimed her as one of the greatest living sopranos. She is an American born and lives in Brooklyn, New York, although she has spent many years in study abroad...
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...
...Born. To Mrs. Frances P. Davison Cheney and Ward Cheney (silk), a daughter; in Manhattan. The baby is a granddaughter of the late Henry P. Davison, War-time Chairman of the American Red Cross; and niece of F. Trubee Davison, assistant Secretary of War in charge of Aviation...
...about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original" on that shore of exotic wreckage and treasure, the Left Bank. That he was born in the U. S. is unimportant except that his inability to subsist there argues his febrility. There is about him much of the hot-house plant which, luxuriating in the warmth and humus of countries long inhabited, would perish in the rigers of a "wilderness." His name is Ezra Pound...