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...Horrid-Looking Wretch." No two campaigns have ever been exactly alike. They have been fought on such varied issues as Van Buren's high living ("Van, Van is a used-up man"), Al Smith's Catholicism, and Buchanan's bachelorhood ("Who ever heard in all his life, of a candidate without a wife?"). They have been won by a McKinley, sitting quietly on the front porch of his Canton, Ohio home; and lost by a Bryan, carrying his crusade 18,000 miles through 29 states. They have caused the death of at least one candidate: famed Editor...
...administrative core of the Foundation's work is a fifteen-man "student council," composed of both Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates under the presidency of Paul Van Buren ocC. Nearly all council members are chairmen of sub-organizations, such as the choir which sings at the Sunday services...
Johnson J. Hooper on census-taking in Alabama ("Bless your soul, honey, take a seat. Now do! Are you the gentleman that Mr. Van Buren has sent out? I wonder! Well, good Lord look down, how was Mr. Van Buren and family when you seed...
Washington diplomatic circles, particularly the British, turned an inquisitive eye on the man who was about to assume America's top assignment in foreign diplomacy-the successor to Thomas Pinckney, John Jay, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Russell Lowell, John Hay et al. Who was O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner...
Harvard's entry in the meet was the first sign of the renovation of the Harvard Yacht Club, Day said that the club plans to have a full season in the fall when "Commodore" Claude Van Buren will return to take over the direction of the club...