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Professor Sayre is a son-in-law of the late President Wilson. He matriculated at Williams College, where he was later assistant to President Garfield...
...Todd Lincoln, who loved style as much as her homely husband detested it, enjoys an elegant moment of respite in her pansy velvet gown, serene in the knowledge that her exquisite little fan and parasol would be the envy of many a prairie lady back home in Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait...
Died. Richard Rogers Bowker, 85, publisher, author, retired utilitarian; at his home near Stockbridge, Mass. Indefatigable in 19th Century politics, he founded the ''Mugwump'' Party (first called the ''Young Scratchers") which swung the 1880 Republican convention to Garfield. He founded the American Library Association...
...Last week President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College. 70 this week. announced his retirement next June 30. He quoted famed Mark Hopkins: "I wish to resign that it may not be asked why I do not resign." Son of the 20th President of the U. S., Dr. Garfield practiced law in Cleveland, taught at Western Reserve and Princeton, became Williams' president in 1908. In 1917 Woodrow Wilson appointed him U. S. Fuel Administrator. Dr. Garfield is celebrated as earnest Dry and as founder of the Williamstown Institute, summer symposium of wise minds on world problems...
...attempt to make some rejoinder to the world's charges that Nazis themselves set fire to the building, by producing alibis for two Nazis-Police Chief Edmund Heines of Breslau and Lieutenant Schultze-both directly named in the London "mock trial." Busy-buzzing U. S. Liberal Arthur Garfield Hays, one of the leading lights of the London trial, hung around Leipzig for days. Defense lawyers devoutly prayed that he go back to his American Civil Lib erties Union before he got them all into trouble. Judge Bünger finally granted him permission to submit testimony later and provide...