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Presidents held a new interest for Cohan after that. For the George Washington Bicentennial he wrote "Father of the Land We Love," went to the White House and presented Herbert Hoover with the first copy (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). Three years ago he wrote for the Edison Golden Jubilee a song that was never published. Called "Thomas A. Edison, Miracle Man," it starts...
...held by its other stockholders. A month ago Continental Illinois' directors, still guilelessly believing that Mr. Jones did not want to interfere in the bank, set out to pick a new chairman. They settled on George Alfred Ranney, onetime treasurer of International Harvester, now vice chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co. Then they got a shock. From Washington sped a report that Walter Joseph Cummings, head of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., was to have the job (TIME, Dec. 25). Again Mr. Jones repeated his promises, but by last week Continental Illinois knew that being in Mr. Jones's parlor...
...George A. Ranney, once International Harvester treasurer, now acting as vice chairman and clean-up man of the ex-Insull Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago, who had been invited to chairman Chicago's Continental Illinois National (TIME, Dec. 25), last week wrote a letter to the bank's directors disclosing that: 1) the Federal Reserve Board had given approval for Mr. Ranney's election; 2) the RFC had been asked by letter for similar approval but had never answered. It was so evident last week that the RFC intended to put in Chairman Cummings of Deposit Insurance...
...huge wooden amphitheater, a miniature reproduction of the Holy Land. Chautauquans may study anything from basket-weaving to playwriting. Most cottagers, who return year after year, are elderly. Men have a Horseshoe Club, women a Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat, play golf or tennis, swim every day but Sunday. Revolt in Milwaukee...
...Squadron sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor, May Day, 1898. For exactly two years it lasted. Congress made George Dewey a full admiral, first since Porter. Dewey songs tinkled on every piano, roared from every barroom. New York gave him the first of its famed civic welcomes, with Edison bulbs spelling out WELCOME DEWEY on the Brooklyn Bridge. Admiral Dewey waited 17 months after the Battle of Manila Bay before coming back to his countrymen. No sooner had he returned than, aged 62, he married the sister of late Publisher John Roll McLean of the Washington Post. The public...