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...reasonable team work, so indicative of a personal desire for publicity at the expense of every one with whom he is associated that his actions render him unfit for a high administrative position, such as he now occupies. I write this with great regret, because he is a gallant officer with an excellent War record, but his record since the War has been such that he has forfeited the good opinion of those who are familiar with the facts and who desire to promote the best interests of national defense...
...honor to the fraternity to present to you this gavel. It is not intrinsically a treasure nor is it a battle axe to rule the unruly. Rather, it is a symbol of the devotion, respect and affection of Dekes throughout the United States for a great Deke and gallant gentleman who is assuming the high office of Speaker of the House of Representatives. It is an expression of our confidence in the worthiness with which the office of Speaker will be administered in the 69th Congress, and lets you know that D. K. E.* backs...
Last scene of all is laid in Dumfries, as the gallant spirit wavers in a body only 37 years old. Holy Willie comes to taunt him, chanting...
Thus wrote Walt Whitman and thus Sculptor Jo Davidson has modeled him, stepping with a fine stride, his long greatcoat billowing out in his van like a useless, gallant mainsail. The design was chosen last week as the best of those submitted for the Walt Whitman Memorial which is to be erected in Manhattan by the Authors' Club. The design will soon be shown at a Whitman exhibition in the New York Public Library...
...Straus brothers, but none o'ertops them in the esteem of Manhattan or of the Republic. Monday, Friedsam; Tuesday, Lehman; Wednesday, Straus; Thursday, Zukor-each was. a million-dollar day (except Tuesday, $957,000) and jointly they produced from the pockets of New York City Jews the gallant total of $4,001,335 for Jewish philanthropies...