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Shrewd though modern debt and interest reductions have been, no Secretary of the Treasury will soon surpass the feats of little-remembered Secretary Benjamin Helm Bristow who, despite the panic of 1873 and with 5% and 7% Civil War loans outstanding, negotiated fresh loans in 1874 at 3% and refunded part of the debt...
JOSEPH L. BRISTOW...
...bell which that name rings in the mind has not pealed since 1915, when Joseph Little Bristow ceased to be a U. S. Senator from Kansas after six tempestuous years. In the mild-mannered gentleman who now farms and sells lots on the outskirts of Washington it is hard to find the bristle-lipped, bead-eyed, frock-coated orator of 15 years ago of whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge...
...Young, Chairman, Miss Hannah Wallace; J. H. Goodwin, Jr., Miss Alice Thorpe; D. A. Piguet, Miss Ethel Paterson; J. W. Packard, Miss Frances Bristow; D. W. Robertson, Miss Nancy Goddard...
...British golf," French Open Champion and onetime (1920) British Amateur Champion, declared that they might be a stronger team had they with them E. W. E. Holderness (British Amateur Champion, 1922 and 1924), Roger Wethered (British Amateur Champion, 1923), Robert Harris. Tolley's nine are: O. C. Bristow, Major Charles O. Hezlet, W. L. Hope, Dennis H. Kyle, W. A. Murray, Robert Scott, Jr., the Hon. Michael Scott, T. A. Torrance, E. F. Storey...