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...Capt. A. M. Simpson there are innumerable stories extant in San Francisco's lumber and shipping world. In his way he was as striking a figure as Dolbeer. When Kyne tells about the manipulations of "Cappy Ricks'' in the pine business, chalk down a story about A. M. Simpson...
...Club as a whole. In matter of controversy it is quite impossible that a general meeting be called before any step is taken by the officers; therefore it has been the practical Club policy to function as an "autocracy" if anyone wishes to use this term. The only extant Constitution of the Liberal Club was created in 1920 and was last amended in 1928 and until a new one is framed there shall have to be, I am afraid, a transitional period minus "authority...
...Waldorf-Astoria Western Union Telegraph Co. installed complete cable and telegraph stations and three translux machines to flash messages of congratulation as they poured in from rulers, statesmen, educators and dignitaries in the four corners of the world. Ready for the diners' inspection were nine of the ten extant oil-paintings (among them an Orpen, a La very, a Salisbury*) of the man they were honoring. Elaborate souvenir programs and menus were printed. Two dollar Wedgwood plates depicting Columbia scenes were to be distributed to each & every guest. New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning would bless their food. President...
...information contained in Life Portraits of George Washington, a privately printed volume by John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, 2 7 painters and sculptors made representations of Washington. Since many of these artists subsequently copied their own work it is impossible to determine how many life portraits are extant. Charles Willson Peale is responsible for about 67 portraits and miniatures of 14 general types; Raphaelle Peale, his eldest son, at least two: Rembrandt Peale, his second son, six; James Peale, his younger brother, II; Charles Peale Polk, his nephew, numerous copies. John Trumbull and Edward Savage, eleven each; Houdon, seven...
...which kept 1,500 men at work all week at St. Nazaire putting 55 tons of steel per day into the hull of the super-super-ship with which they will challenge Cunard's. (Both liners will be "faster than the fastest and larger than the largest" now extant.) Up to last week the French Line had put roughly three times more money than Cunard into actual construction, namely 300,000,000 francs null Suggested name for the Ile de France's super-super-sister: Normandy, since that province fronts the Atlantic and appeals most romantically, with...