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George R. Fearon, President pro tern of the State Senate...
Mayor Marvin of Syracuse is an ambitious young politician who made a name for himself by his methods of municipal relief and economy. Speaker McGinnies and Senator Fearon are old party wheelhorses, hard-boiled and practical, angling for the nomination behind the scenes without public declarations of purpose. Onetime Governor Miller, now general counsel for U. S. Steel, was brought forth as a powerful figure to hold the situation open until the bosses could make up their minds what...
Hardly 13, Arthur Fearon, a puny, whimpering, pinch-faced Liverpool schoolboy, is brutally forced to work by a drunken father. His first job, bailing bilge water out of a filthy ship and chipping salt from the boilers, so sickens him that he crawls on to a tramp steamer, escapes as a stowaway. His life on the freighter is grim with the obscenities of shipmates from cook to bo's'n. Here is not the sea of Conrad, romantic with austerities, but a sea which has beaten its devotees into a coarse ritual. "What kind of world was it into which...
...John A. Hutton, D. D., of the Westminster Chapel, London; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D.; the Rev. James Reid, M. A., of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Eastbourne, Eng.; Dr. William Louis Poteat, President of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C.; the Rev. W. Fearon Holiday of Selly Oak College, Birmingham, Eng., and Melvin E. Trotter, Superintendent of the City Mission, Grand Rapids, Mich...
...Davidson returned from France still an impressionist, but revealing a keener conception of form, an uncanny power for loveliness. His exhibition at the Fearon Gallery was an event of great consequence...