Word: folgerism
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...faced with a large U. S. cigaret advertisement. In the last century Phineas Taylor Barnum tried to buy his birthplace. Retired Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney professes to admire his works above those of all other authors. Last week, by the will of a retired tycoon -Henry Clay Folger, onetime (1911-23) president of Standard Oil Co. of New York-the U. S. acquired a collection of the works of William Shakespeare "not even surpassed by the British Museum," also an imposing museum for it in Washington, D. C., near the national Capitol, also $10,000,000 for further...
...regular attendant at Cabinet meetings, by the courtesy of President Hoover, is Vice President Charles Curtis. At last week's gathering he might well have eyed Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown with speculation if not suspicion. Was " General" Brown trying to get the Vice-Presidency away from him in 1932? Mr. Curtis wondered. Were " General" Brown's friends already working to this end? Mr. Curtis had heard as much. Did President Hoover, as a candidate for renomination, favor such a shift of running mates? Mr. Curtis wished he knew...
...Paul lease was arranged under Democratic Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson, Republican Senators tried to blame him for any wrongdoing. But it was Republican Postmaster General Will Hays who signed the first lease in 1922, Republican Postmaster General Harry Stewart New who renewed it in 1925. Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown was accused of being very slack and indifferent to extirpating the alleged fraud...
...thus seen that no matter whether Shakespearean folios or quartos be considered. Mr. Folger leads all others by a rather wide margin. In my opinions however, the chief-glory of the Folger collection lies in its ownership of the Gwynne copy of the 1619 volume. This unique copy is in its original binding. Containing nine plays, it precedes the first folio by four years, and is really the first collected edition of Shakespeare. John L. Kable...