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...State of Michigan decided that his home was no place for him, instead placed him in its Children's Institute at Ann Arbor. A year later Chris was released to Mrs. Harriet Atwood, wealthy farmer's widow, began attending the one-room Bigelow Rural School in Calhoun County, Michigan. He grew faster than most of his 15 schoolmates, got pretty good marks in everything but conduct. was soon demanding special privileges because his foster mother was president of the school board...
...preparation to opening its drive for $10,000 today, the Harvard Refugee Committee has announced the election of Robert F. Horrick, noted Boston lawyer and known as the "benefactor of the Harvard crew," as treasurer and Calhoun Stillman '39 as undergraduate treasurer...
...time-soaked Charleston, it was not in human for the city to count its casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed was a row of ancient shells where legend...
...Author Agar's standards, Jackson, Lincoln, Bryan and La Follette were Jeffersonians, and Franklin Roosevelt is one; Calhoun, Jeff Davis and many a later politician who considered himself a Jeffersonian made principles of what were only methods to the sage of Monticello. Tracing this division through the familiar story of Jackson and the Bank of the United States, to Bryan's part in Wilson's nomination, Author Agar often wanders far afield but enlivens his account with pungent political sermons. Indifference, self-seeking, the vulgarization of politics outrage him most, and the apathy of citizens before political...
...largest small businessmen invited by Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper to a Conference of Little Business in Washington last February was DeWitt McKinley Emery-6 ft. 6 in. When that conference became a circus it made red-headed Mr. Emery very angry. Two months previously he had conceived on his own idea of a national conference of small businessmen, had sent out from his Akron, Ohio stationery plant a form letter to other little men which began: "The sheriff is about to get my business. How's yours?" He attended the Washington shenanigans, was disgusted, decided...