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...born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when...
...Earle of Eldon was one of England's most famous Lord Chancellors and the third great Chancellor in England's judicial history to systematize Equity. He and Chancellor Kent of New York, are the great figures in Equity of modern times. The Earle of Eldon, born in 1751, was from 1788 until 1827 successively solicitor general, attorney general. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Chancellor. The bust which has just been secured was made during his long term as Lord Chancellor from...
...great Evangelists of the world, Gipsy Smith was born in England 66 years ago. He began preaching immediately after his conversion in 1876, although he could neither read nor write; and it was then that he began his practice, which he has followed to the present day, of singing hymns to his audience when his vocabulary failed. When the Great War broke out, he tried to enlist, but his age disqualified him. He served as a minister, however, with the British Y. M. C. A. in 1916, 1917, and 1918, and for his work on the battlefields, he received...
Married. Charles Stewart Mott, 54, of Flint, Mich., vice president of General Motors Corp., three times Mayor of Flint, twice a widower; and Mrs. Dee Van Balkon Fuery, 29, of Detroit, Sumatra-born, Paris-educated editor of Bridle and Golfer, Detroit smart-chart; in Toledo, Ohio...
Publisher Hadden was born in Brooklyn, the son of the late Crowell Hadden Jr. and the present Mrs. William P. Pool. Banker Crowell Hadden, 88, is his grandfather. He went to the Hotchkiss School and Yale University (class of 1920). He edited both the school and college newspapers. During the War he was a leader in the R. 0. T. C. movement. Intense in all things, he had his hair close-cropped as an example in military efficiency to the battery of which he was ist Sergeant. The moment the age-limit was lowered to permit it, he was commissioned...