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...daughter of White Plume, a chief of the Kaws, and granddaughter of a chief of the Osages. She married a French trader, Conville, and their daughter, Julie Conville married another French trader, Pappan. This gentlewoman, Mr. Curtis' grandmother had an Indian allotment on which Mr Curtis was born. Ellen Pappan, his mother married Captain O. A. Curtis. Part of the Senator's boyhood was spent on the Kaw reservation...
...Green, like Secretary of Labor Davis, has Welsh blood in his veins, and began life as a miner, but he was born in this country at Coshocton, Ohio. In the year and five months of his stewardship he has shown where his talents lie-as a conciliator and composer of differences within the ranks of labor and as a leader devoted to the policy of "the middle course" between a possibly imaginary Scylla of Capitalism and a certainly dreaded Charybdis of Communism...
...John Rushworth Jellicoe was born in 1859, joined the British Navy 13 years later. Sir John Jellicoe commanded the British Grand Fleet (1914-1916), and while personally worshiped by British tars, was considered by some experts to have let the German fleet slip through his fingers at the battle of Jutland (1916). Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa became Admiral of the Fleet in 1919. In 1920 he was sent as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief to New Zealand, returning in 1924, to be created, in 1925 Viscount Brocas of Southampton and Earl Jellicoe...
Every year Columbia University awards a prize of $1,500 (Pulitzer money) to "that art student who shall be certified as the most promising and deserving by the National Academy of Design." Last week this prize was given to Humbert R. Romano of Springfield, Mass.-age 20, born in Naples, youngest of a family of eight...
...What great exponent of electromechanics was born in Idvor...