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...portrait to hang in his old department. Likeliest way to remove an undesirable would be by resolution of Congress. No picture of Harry Micajah Daugherty, discredited Attorney General, nor of Aaron Burr, unpopular U. S. Vice President, hangs officially in Washington. But in the Capitol lobby still hangs Schuyler Colfax, U. S. Vice President (1869-73) who was implicated but not convicted in the Credit Mobilier scandal...
...hero, Colfax Pendleton, sets out to become a great lawyer, and appears to be in a fair way of realizing his ambition if he can definitely sever his ties to his old home town in Virginia. However, instead of marrying a wealthy tradesman's daughter in Baltimore, he gets attached to a placid, contented, and very beautiful young lady from home...
...rest of the book, Colfax is struggling to take his wife away from the easy, if empty life of their parents and their friends. His wife is perfectly satisfied where she is, and has all the non-aggressive, but immovable resistance of the Plymouth Rock. Her beauty and her passive strength are more than a match for her husband's ambition, and Colfax settles down protestingly to a discontented life...
Opportunist. The dark and tousled head of Revolutionist-Extraordinary General José Gonzalo Escobar, who arranged for the killing of 4,000 Mexicans by each other last spring, lay several nights last week on a spotless pillowcase at No. 7750 Colfax Ave., Chicago, home of Vice President Merwin Crawford of Crawford & Associates (printers...
...Fred Colfax Smith, at present Instructor in Education, has been appointed Register of the Graduate School of Education, Lecturer on Vocational Education and member of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Education...