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...great-grandfather came to the colonies from Dublin when he was a child and lived to command a regiment in the Revolution. Asa Griggs Candler, born too late for Indians and Redcoats, began his business career in the drugstore of Best & Kirkpatrick in Carters- ville. Ga. He had almost no money. His family was indifferent to money. Let a man be honest-shrewdness was unnecessary. It was about 1887 that he sold in his store (he had started a little dispensary of his own in Atlanta) a few quarts of some stuff invented by a certain Dr. Pemberton, and called...
...Apsey '24 of Cambridge; Herbert Alvin Berman '24 of Cambridge; Robert Garlock of Bloomfield N. J; Leon Lipschitz of New York City; Milton Rosenkranz of Union City, N. J., and Joshua Willard '24 of Minneapolis, Minn. From the second year men, those picked are: Joseph Benjamin Brennan of Savannah, Ga.; Erwin Nathaniel Griswold of Cleveland, Ohio; Moses Samuel Huberman '23 of Portland, Me.; Nathan Leopard Jacobs of Bayonne, N. J.; Louis Leventhal Joffe of Baltimore, Md.; Carlisle Elwood Mau of Provo, Utab; William Mitchell of Washington, D. C., James Benjamin Powell of Ashland, O.; Howard Darker Sharp '25 of Tulsa...
...Thanksgiving night in 1915 William Joseph Simmons, preacher, traveling salesman and experienced promoter of fraternal orders, gathered some friends on Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., before a 'fiery cross' and administered the oath of the 'Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.' A state charter gave corporate rights to his organization. As Imperial Wizard, Simmons could hold office for life and have final authority unless opposed by two-thirds of the Imperial Kloncilium, council of supreme officers and delegates from other states. . . . Simmons met financial difficulties. The order would have languished had not new impetus...
...Smith of the Society for Pure English, and Lecturer Lloyd James were the gentlemen selected to see that Britons should not, through hardening to voices in the air, fall into such malaproprieties as saying "acow-sticks" for "acoustics" "despick'-able" for "des'picable," "gu-raghe" for "ga'rage" "lie'aizon," "for leeay'zon" revelant" for "relevant" "Balon'ie" for "Bouloan' " (Boulogne), "charrabanks" for "sharabang" (as the British doggedly pronounce the French char-à-bancs...
More than half a century ago, a man-child was born near Marietta, Ga. Two years later, his mother presented him with a little brother. They were not long in becoming rough kids, always fighting together against outsiders, always scrapping each other. In after years, the younger brother wrote TIME the first letter which it ever published, saying that he always used to lick his big brother (TIME, Sept. 29, 1924). These fisticuffing lads were the McAdoo brothers: William Gibbs, elder; Malcolm Ross, younger...