Word: fenelon
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...Collier's, which built its reputation as a fighting journal, it was a tame end. Founded by an immigrant Bible salesman named Peter Fenelon Collier in 1888 (original title: Once A Week), Collier's sent Correspondent Richard Harding Davis to cover the Russo-Japanese War at $1,000 a week, uncovered phony medicines and phony politicians, fought for income taxes, woman suffrage and a host of other causes. It published Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, hired Charles Dana Gibson to draw Gibson girls (at $1,000 a drawing) and Frederic Remington to paint cowboy...
...voters went to the polls last week to choose a President by direct popular election (TIME, Oct. 9). By week's end, according to the first unofficial returns, Candidate Magloire had piled up an early total of 151,115 votes. His only formal opponent, an obscure architect named Fenelon J. Alphonse, polled less than...