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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposition to a President may be a friendly thing, productive of large and pleasant rewards. Such a reward last week came to Representative Finis James Garrett of Tennessee, onetime printer, editor, teacher, lawyer, and now leader of the Democracy in the House. President Coolidge appointed him to the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals. Mr. Garrett had reached up for a Senate rung in the Tennessee political ladder last year, missed his grip...
Thus the grandsire of today's J. P. Morgan actually coined Hearst Editor Brisbane's famed slogan: "Don't sell the country short." Mr. Junius Spencer Morgan had participated in the dry-goods business at Boston, Mass, before he removed to London and founded the English firm of J. S. Morgan & Co. Later, this became Morgan, Grenfell & Co., which is today the London office of Morgan...
Last week Dr. Grant achieved far more fame than theretofore he had won in shepherding his Moundsville flock. His name appeared in big-city newspapers all over the U. S. Many an editor wanted to publish his face. But they had none of his photographs. Therefore they did the next best thing and published pictures of the man he assailed-Bishop Francis John McConnell. newly elected President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, successor to the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman (TIME...
Thus Dr. Grant wrote in the Presbyterian, a weekly published in Philadelphia. And the Presbyterian's editor, approving, added: "The hearts of real Presbyterians had rather grown accustomed to be saddened by the utterances of Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, who until recently was President of the Federal Council of Churches. It was hoped that his successor would be a man whose utterances would at least be in harmony with the teachings of evangelical Christianity...
William McAndrew, refugee from stormy political seas as a onetime Super intendent of Schools in Chicago, recently suggested belladonna plasters for seasickness. As editor of the Educational Review he was mindful of a current propensity among patient pedagogs for elaborate research and profound tabulations. Placing his tongue ever so slightly in his cheek, Dr. McAndrew tabulated his belladonna-plasters-for-seasickness research as follows: Number reporting having used bella donna plasters..............6 Number reporting having escaped from sea sickness..........6 Median.................................................................................................6 Correlation............................................................................Per cent. 100 Number seen by me who said they were wearing 'em...........5 Number...