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...even Vice President. In 1924 some of his friends at the Republican National Convention were preparing a good-sized boom for him for Vice President. "Boys, that's fine," said Mr. Davis in his jolly fraternal manner, "only don't forget that I was born in Wales...
...Davis* was born in a mill-town called Tredegar, 53 years ago-the son and grandson of stout iron workers. One day, when he was eight, his mother dragged him out from under his bed by the heels. He tried to grip the floor and got splinters in his hands, but he was taken off to the land of liberty by his family, who believed: "The American mind is right. Go to America...
Woodrow Wilson was born on Dec. 28, 1856. Seventy years later, many of his admirers gathered at luncheons and dinners through out the land to honor his name. In Manhattan Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and some 500 distinguished guests assembled to hear Elihu Root accept a check for $25,000 and a bronze medal from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (TIME, Dec. 20) "in recognition of his services to humanity...
...cajoles to the mood and art of the musician. These are not things. They are temperaments, identified by their own names for centuries, treasured, loved by the men who have been fortunate to know their richness. The "Titian" was once owned by Efrem Zimbalist. The "Viola Mac Donald" was born in 1701. "La Belle Blondine," the cello that was heard in Spain, was bundled off in silks and felts to the U. S. in return for a fabulous sum of money. The fourth, a "Red" Stradivari, was just recently released from a physician's care; its tone wanted strengthening...
...owners were the brothers Ridder - Victor F., Bernard H., Joseph E. - sons of the late Herman Ridder who, born a New Yorker, in 1851 of German parents, bought the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung in 1889. He had already established two Catholic newspapers in Manhattan and under his direction the Staats-Zeitung became the country's leading German daily. An independent Democrat, he was national democratic treasurer in 1908. A thorough German, he defended the Kaiser during the War, as far as his U. S. patriotism would permit, daily publishing an editorial in English that his attitude might be clearly...