Word: cames
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interested in affairs military, he attended two Plattsburg training camps (1915-1916). When war came, he was commissioned a major of field artillery (311th), went to France in July, 1918, fought through the Argonne campaign, won the D. S. M. from the U. S., the Legion of Honor from France. He returned to his corporation law office in 1919, which he left on Aug. 8, 1922, when he was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator William Evans Crow...
...Major Hurley asked the beauteous and accomplished Ruth Wilson to marry him. She sent him to her father, Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, commander of the Atlantic fleet, then lying in the Hudson River. Thither the love-struck Major hastened. He says life's greatest thrill came when the Admiral's barge took him off to the flagship where he was ceremoniously piped over the rail. Formally, as one U. S. officer to another, he presented his compliments to the Admiral, requested his daughter's hand in marriage. After the War they were married, on a Friday...
Edward S. Harkness, donor of $13,000,000 for the institution of the Harvard House Plan, was in Boston and Cambridge during the last two days. He came to attend a dinner given by the Tavern Club in his honor last night at the club house, 4 Boylston Place, Boston...
Probably the best crack in the whole picture, at least from a local viewpoint occurs in a conversation between Martin, the friend, and Judie. The former is referring to Judie's father and says, "Yes, I knew him at Harvard. He was one of those graduates that came back to try to coach the team...
...bided his time and saw how things were done. Then in 1896, when he was ready, when he had found his man William McKinley, he quietly retired from business, went into politics with a bang, and put his candidate across on the first ballot. From that time until Death came for him in his Washington mansion (1904), Mark Hanna, as Senator from Ohio, "minister without portfolio," leader of the Senate, was very much in politics. In Ohio he was politics. Now and then someone was foolhardy enough to oppose him in his own state. One such, Robert McKisson, a Mayor...