Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Betty Bowen Jumel Burr-famous or infamous as you choose-started life in the gutters of Providence when that town was noted mainly for its smells of whale-oil, rope, duck, slaughterhouses and rum made from molasses. Aside from these industries, it busied itself right patriotically, when the time came, with turning out muskets and cannon -"cannon to stand still for the Rhode Island defenses and wheeled cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with...
...regrettably, not pure gold. But as a cracking good yarn strung on historical data, it deserves mention. In its pages are fascinating glimpses of early American history, revitalized. Days of the sprawling growth of the bristly, sturdy little Nation, days of triumph for Washington, of jealousy between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, ended so tragically on the bluffs at Weehawken, days of wickedness and glamour in the dazzling French Court, days of snobbery and naivete in awkward little New York, days of the fizzing of "the waters" at Saratoga and the journeys thither of troupes of the gentility, some driving...
...Bank of the Manhattan Co. was chartered in 1799 through the efforts of Aaron Burr. Previous to that date, the N. Y. State Assembly had allowed only one bank to be created-the Bank of New York, sponsored by Alexander Hamilton. Burr wished to create a rival bank, but owing to political conditions he knew he could not get a charter directly. He accordingly organized the Manhattan Co., ostensibly to engage in supplying fresh water to New Yorkers. A "joker" in the company's charter, overlooked by the Assembly, permitted it to enter the banking business as a sideline...
...Article II and the 12th Amendment. The election has been thrown into the House twice. In 1800 Jefferson was elected in a tie with Burr; in 1824 John Quincy Adams was elected over Andrew Jackson, Crawford and Clay. When Hayes was elected over Tilden, there was not a case of no majority in the Electoral College. But there was a contest over the validity of 22 electoral votes. A commission of five Representatives, five Senators and five Supreme Court Justices (eight Republicans and seven Democrats) gave the 22 votes to Hayes. Hayes was elected with 185 electoral votes...
...years ago "Bob" Speer went to Princeton-a poor boy, tall, husky, with massive head and shoulders. He starred in the line of the football eleven, edited the college paper, won the oratorical contests. There is a tradition that his scholastic standing was second only to that of Aaron Burr in the history of the college. He prepared for the ministry, but would not become ordained because he felt that priesthood would limit his influence.* Almost at once he stepped into a world business - Foreign Missions. Most of his life has been spent as one of the two or three...