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Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seized the Golden Bear flag of Cali fornia and started a procession. Banker William H. Crocker uprooted the State's placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into line. Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang...
...names of the Seniors receiving commissions follow: C. F. Adams, Jr., R. M. Ayer, F. M. Brodie, Jr., D. W. B. Brown, G. R. Clark, F. S. Cheever, E. B. Cole, Alvah Crocker III, W. H. Crosby, W. W. Crowninshield, C. B. Currier, R. M. Faxon, M. J. Finlayson, J. W. Fitzpatrick, N. P. Hallowell, Jr., G. C. Homans, J. B. Mahoney, R. G. Mitchell, Jr., A. H. Parker, Jr., Samuel Powell, Jr., T. N. Rogers, R. G. Snider, Samuel Spencer...
...Bachrach, Philip Boyer, Jr., A. O. Brooks, J. A. Bross, C. M. Campbell, Jr., C. E. Channing, David Crocker, H. M. David, R. D. deRhan, L. A. Francisco, I. B. Hardy, Jr., O. C. Holder, Alfred Kidder 2nd, J. H. Leatherbee, G. P. Lewis, G. F. F. Lombard, J. A. Luetkemeyer...
...amplify his objections he called a camp stenographer and dictated a 2,500-word letter to Herbert Samuel Crocker, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ardent advocate of a big public works program.* A courier sped the letter to Washington where Secretary of the Treasury Mills checked it over for fiscal facts and figures. Then it was mimeographed and passed out to newsmen at the White House...
...Babbitt, H. H. Babcock, F. H. 2nd, V. G. Balboni, M. L. N. C. Bodman, Randolph Jr., R. R. Borden, Jr., E. D. F. G. von Brecht, R. E. von R. S. Brookings, II, H. B. Burley, E. C. Carman, I. S. Chenoweth, Chung, Northrop Clarey, Jr., Crocker, A. B. Duel, Jr., B. K. Jr., J. S. England, C. R. Jr., W. A. Forbush...