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Representatives Elbert S. Brigham and Ernest W. Gibson of the Presi- dent's native Vermont, to show how Federal aid was needful to rebuild Vermont's washed-out highways...
...Among the duties of the Secretary of the Treasury is that of causing to be struck, as soon as possible after inauguration day, a bronze medal bearing the new Presi'dent's likeness. No effort or money is spared to reproduce the last freckle, pock, line, whisker; the exact crook of nose, areas of baldness, hair part, ear convulsions, etc., for the Presidential medals constitute the official record of what each President looked like while in office. Until about ten years ago, the medals were called "Indian peace medals," hundreds of them being distributed to chieftains...
Married. Phyllis Cleveland, second cousin of the late U. S. Presi- dent Grover Cleveland, leading lady in The Cocoanuts* (with Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Zeppo Marx); to one J. Ainsworth Morgan of San Francisco & New York; in Manhattan...
...whenever a President retires at a suitable age there is always talk of his entering Congress. The House of Representatives is not as attractive to public-men today as it was in the younger Adams's day, so it is the Senate where gossip places ex-Presi-dents. The difficulty is that there never is a vacancy at the right time. Some one is up for reelection. Or if a member dies or retires, others have made plans years ahead to succeed the retiring member. Thus it will rarely happen that an ex-President can enter the Senate without...
...scholarship. This correspondent gently pointed to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first president of University of Chicago; to David Starr Jordan, onetime (1891-1913) president of Stanford University; to Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbia University; to several others as scholar presidents. This correspondent was President of Yale University, James Rowland Angell...