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Sirs - In a recent issue of TIME (March 28) you mention a number of American presidents who had "smart sons" .... I think you overlooked President Garfield, father of a college president, a noted architect and a prominent attorney of Cleveland. JEAN PATON...
Able sons of the late onetime U. S. President James Abram Garfield are: 1) President Harry Augustus, 63, of Williams College; 2) Attorney James Rudolph, 61, of Cleveland, onetime (1907-09) U. S. Secretary of the Interior; 3) Attorney Irvin McDowell, 56, of Boston; 4) Architect Abram, 54, of Cleveland...
...Chester Alan Arthur (1830-86), New York widower-politician, polished, unfastidious, who was nominated for Vice President as running mate of James Abram Garfield to mollify and obtain the political support of Spoilsman Roscoe Conkling and his gangs of "Stalwarts." When Garfield died from Assassin Charles Guiteau's bullet, Arthur served for three years as "the only man of the world, in the best sense of the term, who has ever occupied the White House...
...Chester A. Arthur, polished but unimportant politician, became Vice President of the U. S. In the same year President Garfield was assassinated and Mr. Arthur became President. Oath of office was administered at his home on the first floor apartment of No. 123 Lexington Ave., Manhattan. Last week that floor was gritted by fire...
...train rolled away and the passengers drowsed again. Mrs. Brookings spent the night in the county jail and was fined $500 for violation of Florida's "Jim Crow" law, which forbids Negroes to use railroad accommodations set apart for whites. Now, as everyone knows, Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, shrewd lawyers, are friends of all races; in fact, in 1925, they defended the source of all races at the famed "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. Mr. Darrow has saved the lives of two young Jews, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold; Mr. Hays has defended the civil right...