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Last week the future of Stevens and his Reconstruction Party was anybody's guess. Stevens' career was against him. He was born in Britain; he did not go to War; he has heretofore run with the capitalists. Sang one of his admirers last week: "Canada has found an Abraham Lincoln...
...born in Leyden on the Rhine circa 1606, youngest son of a prosperous miller. His four elder brothers all became poor cobblers and millers. His parents soon assigned Rembrandt to something better, gave him a year at the University of Leyden before he brought home a pile of drawings, said he was determined to be a painter...
...Born amid suspicion, confusion and recrimination, the Banking Bill seemed headed for heavy weather. Although Governor Eccles had promised to confer with Senator Glass on new legislation, the Banking Bill was inadvertently cleared by the White House before the testy little Virginian saw a copy. Moreover, the Eccles Bill proposed to change the whole theory of the Federal Reserve Act, toward which, as its jealous father, Carter Glass had a distinctly possessive attitude. If there really was a Glass-Eccles feud, as some newspapers made out, the Banking Bill promised fireworks...
...Blanca to El Paso, Tex., members of the Otero family have been judges, governors, railroad builders, bankers, billiard champions, sportsmen. During the era of Western expansion, they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental in bringing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad into New Mexico and served on its early board of directors. Last week his 75-year-old son, onetime...
...Author. Born in Vienna in 1883, Ethnologist Lowie arrived in the U. S. at the age of 10, was educated at City College and Columbia, became associate curator at the American Museum of Natural History in 1913. A member of the staff of the American Anthropologist from 1912 to 1933, he served as its editor for nine years, has been professor of anthropology at the University of California since 1925. Of his twelve published volumes, five deal with the Crow Indians. Married two years ago, he now lives in Berkeley, Calif...