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Left. By the late Emily C. Jordan Folger of Glen Cove, L. I.: an estate estimated at $2,000,000, the bulk of which was bequeathed to the great Folger Shakespeare Memorial in Washington, D. C., founded by her late husband, Standard Oilman Henry Clay Folger...
Thus did Idaho's Borah become the first Republican Presidential candidate of 1936. Reason for the Borah announcement was that onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Toledo, friend of Herbert Hoover, and other members of the Old Guard in Ohio were preparing to enter a "favorite son" in the Ohio primaries so that they could take Ohio's votes to the Republican convention in their pockets. Senator Borah, by his own candidacy, aimed to forestall them...
...flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. In the 1880's Robert Todd Lincoln, U. S. Minister to the Court of St. James's, officially warned his fellow countrymen that "shares" in the fortune of the celebrated British seaman were nonexistent. Three years ago Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown broke a precedent by making public the names of seven citizens to whom the use of the mails had been denied because they had accepted "donations" from aspirants to the Drake heritage (TIME, Jan. 23, 1933). At that time the Solicitor of the Postoffice Department announced: "There has never...
...legitimate productions rather than in cinemansions, impressively brought to the attention of schools, women's clubs and Shakespeare societies. Delighted Warner publicists last week proudly revealed the whereabouts of the original working script of the screen play, by Charles Kenyon and Mary McCall Jr.: Washington's Folger Memorial Shakespeare Library, along with a print of the film...
...Onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown owned 4,000 shares of International Mercantile Marine Corp. stock when he awarded mail contracts to I. M. M.'s United States Lines...