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...primary came in the 9th (Toledo) District where big, white-haired Republican Representative William Wallace Chalmers, weaseling on Prohibition, lost to Wilbur McKinley White, managing editor of the Toledo Times, an out-&-out Wet. Chalmers' defeat was a direct blow to Chalmers' prime supporter, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. Toledo's G. O. P. boss. Nominee White's paper's rival, the Toledo -Blade, turned Wet, supported...
...chosen to head the national committee. As not prearranged this was done on a permanent basis, for Mr. Fess refused to take the job temporarily. Ousted Mr. Huston was reported as saying at once: "Enter the Ohio Gang again." If uttered, this bitter remark was aimed at Walter Folger Brown of Toledo as much as at Simeon Davison Fess. The latter was never a member of the Harding-Daugherty-Jesse Smith inner circle, though party and State loyalty required him to flay the Ohio Gang's critics in his maiden Senate speech. Postmaster General Brown was not a Harding...
After he was graduated from Amherst in 1879, Tycoon Folger divided his time between writing treatises on petroleum and monographs on Shakespeare, and making more money to buy more early Shakespeare editions. His hobby he shared with his wife. Together they amassed 25,000 rare volumes of the works of Elizabethan dramatists. Until his death the precise worth of this collection, now stored in Manhattan, was intentionally kept vague so that his reputation as a collector would not handicap him in making purchases...
...Folger Shakespeare Memorial, now abuilding on Grant Row between the Congressional Library and the site of the new Supreme Court building, will contain reading rooms, exhibition rooms and a courtyard created in the image of a 16th Century English theatre. Cost...
Among the items, once the property of bewhiskered, un-Big Businesslike Mr. Folger, are: the only known copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's works; a copy of Titus Andronicus published in 1594; many an early quarto; one of the three existing copies of the second edition of Hamlet* Amherst's Board of Trustees will administer the $10,000,000 fund, for which service the college will receive $250,000. When the Memorial is completed. Amherst's trustees will take whatever steps seem necessary to finance Shakespearean investigation and disseminate knowledge of Shakespeare...