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...Bassett, ex-congressman and member of the advisory committee on zoning of the Department of Commerce in 1922, will lecture, as will Harland Bartholomew, prominent city planner. Alfred Bettman, Cincinnati lawyer and city planner; Charles W. Eliot, II, a member of the Capitol Park and Playground Commission in Washington; L. H. Weir, member of the Park, Playground, and Recreation Association of America; and Theodore K. Hubbard, honorary librarian of the American City Planning Institute, complete the list of prominent lecturers...
...reporter so I can see what li'l ole New York is really like." Alert for publicity, Editor Weyrauch gave Dryman Upshaw a job as a news-gatherer, told him his salary would be that of a "cub" and then announced in large headlines to Graphic readers: "Ex-Congressman on Graphic staff." With his eye also on publicity, Newsman Upshaw consented to have his stories "by-lined" (signed), his picture placed in the Graphic's pages every day or so. His early assignments were street-corner interviews. His early impressions: "This is bully. Even though...
...FOUR DAWES BROTHERS-Charles Gates, Rufus Cutler (public utilities), Beman Gates (ex-Congressman from Ohio), Henry May (ex-Comptroller of the Currency...
Died. William Wallace Crapo, 95, "oldest ex-Congressman," "first citizen of New Bedford (Mass.)," famed lawyer, banker, industrialist; at New London. In 1876 the U. S. was brought almost to the verge of civil war by the dispute as to whether Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) or Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) had secured sufficient votes to elect him to the presidency. The House and Senate chose a Commission of seven Democrats and eight Republicans to adjudicate this matter. By a majority of one the commission gave the election to Hayes. Mr. Crapo was a Republican member of this Commission. Thus...
Robert Todd Lincoln was born in Springfield, Ill., in 1843, in the little white house with green blinds where his ex-Congressman father had settled down to practice law. He was named for his Kentucky-banker grandfather, Robert Todd. He took after his impetuous, affectionate fault-finding mother. He attended the Illinois Industrial School at Urbana (later the University of Illinois) and was sent east to Phillips Exeter Academy. He entered Harvard Law School but left to become a captain on General Grant's staff. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox, whence he returned...