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...Trinity College until 1924, when the late great capitalist Tobaccoman James Buchanan Duke endowed it with a $40,000,000 trust fund...
Goals: Franco 3, Terry, Thacher, Martin, Masjoan. Referee--D. Buchanan. Time--four 20-minute periods...
James Eads How was a stubborn idealist. He believed in the "actual, practical brotherhood of man." His family was rich. His grandfather was James Buchanan Eads, builder of the first bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis, builder of the Mississippi jetties just below New Orleans. His father was James Flintham How, vice president and general manager of the Wabash Railroad. Young How entered Meadville Theological School, Unitarian institution at Meadville, Pa. Fellow students termed him eccentric, "crazy," because he gave the poor his allowance, his possessions, everything but meagre necessities. He made his room a hermit-like cell...
Politics & policy figured in all nine rejections. John Rutledge was refused confirmation as Chief Justice by a Federalist Senate because of his denunciation of the Jay Treaty. President Buchanan saw Jeremiah Sullivan Black of South Carolina rejected in February 1861 because of the rising political passions preceding the Civil War. President Cleveland's bitter foe, New York's Senator David Bennett Hill, succeeded in slaughtering two of Cleveland's Supreme Court appointments in one month...
President Hoover did not have to be told by Capt. Allen Buchanan, his naval aide and conference adviser in Florida, that limitation so high that the U. S. might have to spend half a billion dollars on new ships to attain its quota strength was not the reduction of naval armaments the President had first publicly set his heart...