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...Pennsylvania National Guard into the next motor. It was a stag affair. Mrs. Coolidge was not present. Within the heavy portals of the Union League Club, some of the faces the President saw, the hands he shook, belonged to Governor John S. Fisher (see p. 11), Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia, Senator-Elect William S. Vare and onetime (1922-27) Senator George Wharton Pepper, Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Railroad Presidents William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio), Patrick Edward Crowley (New York Central), Edward Loomis (Lehigh Valley) ; also Samuel Rea, onetime...
Died. Dr. A. H. Freeland Barbour, 71, famed gynecologist, onetime president of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh; in Edinburgh...
Circumstances caused him to appear momentarily ridiculous as Philadelphia Director of Public Safety (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). He resigned from the marines to continue as "Philadelphia Dry Tsar," and at the same time Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia dismissed him. The War Department recognized that General Butler had been the victim of Philadelphia politics and allowed him to withdraw his resignation. His assignment to China is prudent, well-advised, a happy choice...
...Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia: "Last week I made an announcement which surprised no one. I stated that the Sesquicentennial International Exposition is a financial failure, that operating deficits run between $25,000 and $40,000 weekly, that contractors are due more than $3,000,000 for construction and other work, that concessionaires want the Exposition reopened next year. Said I: 'While we should have had 25,000,000 people in attendance, we have had fewer than...
...politician was Mayor Freeland W. Kendrick of Philadelphia. Two years ago he announced his intention of "cleaning up the town." He set out to find a fighting police commissioner (Director of Public Safety). He found him. For one reason or another he got rid of him last week...