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...tide of economic events." A Bavarian from Ansbach, he learned banking in Chicago, went to the Hibernia 26 years ago. At 33 he was president. John J. Gannon, whom he displaced, spent the brief balance of his life cursing Rudolf Hecht in all public places as a double-crosser...
England-Australia. Four British subjects were soloing from England to Australia last week: English Lieut. C. W. Hill who reached Siam safely; Australian Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, Atlantic & Pacific crosser, flying to marry Mary Powell at Melbourne; Captain F. R. Matthews, who crashed between Bankok and Singapore; Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, who intends to go around the world by easy stages. Last week her motor failed over the mountains near Jask, Persia. Courteous hillmen brought her mechanical...
...swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting him to the White House for dinner. Later in the year (1906) Roosevelt, looking for a U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, remembered the stream-crosser, appointed Henry Lewis Stimson who, in addition to being Sergeant Stimson of Squadron A, was also Lawyer Stimson of the Manhattan law firm founded by Elihu Root...
...Stream-crosser Stimson was born in Manhattan in 1867, is a graduate of Yale (1888) and Harvard Law School, is entitled to wear the Phi Beta Kappa key. He was unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York (1910), was Secretary of War under President Taft (1911-1913). As Colonel of the 31st Field Artillery he saw World War service in France...