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...years ago, on his 89th birthday, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Yale '56, received an invitation from fellow Elis of the class of '89 to join their number, be their brother, attend their class reunions as adopted patriarch. Mr. Depew accepted this "beautiful and welcome hospitality...
...Depew is distinguished. Lawyer, politician, public and post- prandial orator, he has seen many years full of service and honor. And the class of '89 is a distinguished class in its own right, patriarch or none. Of its 120 mem bers, there were at one-and-the sametime 17 occupying seats on benches of the judiciary. It has contributed 27 district attorneys and corporation counsels to our legal aristocracy. Lately it has styled itself "famous class"* without fear of contradiction...
...President was elected: Chester I. Long, onetime U. S. Senator from Kansas, member of the Wichita law firm of Long, Houston, Cowan & Depew...
Recently, however, Manhattan has re-entered the competition. A building syndicate has acquired the block hounded by Lexington Ave., Depew Place, 43rd and 44th Sts., adjacent to the Grand Central Station. On this site will be erected a building rising 30 stories above the street level, and extending seven stories beneath it; it will he completed Mar. 1,1927. The new structure will be the largest office building in the world, since it will contain 21,000,000 cubic feet and have 1,350,000 square feet of office space?30,000 more than the General Motors Building...
...court dismissed charges against Chauncey Depew...