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...late great Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the famed New York World, established a scholarship fund for poor boys. Mr. Pulitzer's plan horrified practical citizens. Chauncey Depew predicted that Mr. Pulitzer's pampered scholars would end as paupers...
...they go to Columbia University). All told, 551 boys (mostly sons of immigrants) were chosen. In these boys a round $1,000,000 was invested. A Columbia Pulitzer Scholar, Harry Schwartz,, having investigated to see what 50 years of the Pulitzer scholarships had produced, now shows that Chauncey Depew talked through his top hat. Having tracked down 268 of the 366 living Pulitzer graduates, he reported...
...Republican Westchester County a jury awarded $21,000 damages to Frederick Grewen, 34, knocked down on Manhattan's Park Avenue last April by Mrs. James Roosevelt's automobile. The President's mother and her chauffeur, Louis E. Depew, who was alone in the car when the accident occurred, were codefendants. Said Supreme Court Justice Mortimer B. Patterson: "The jury was generous, all right...
Died. Ganson Depew, 68, attorney, Buffalo's "Citizen No. 1," nephew of the late Chauncey Depew; of pneumonia; in Buffalo...
...Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained him at his farm in Belfast, N. Y., curbed his drinking with a baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball and the shower bath. He and Gene Tunney annually exchanged telegrams on their mutual birthday...