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...graves is carved a solemn record of history. The names themselves ring with historic significance : William Howard Taft, the only President to exercise his prerogative as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and select Arlington as his burial site; Admiral Robert (North Pole) Peary; Robert Todd Lincoln, James Garfield's Secretary of War, and the only one of Abraham Lincoln's sons to live to manhood ; General Phil Sheridan; Air General Henry ("Hap") Arnold and Admiral Marc ("Turn on the Lights") Mitscher; William Gibbs McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's World War I Secretary of the Treasury; Pianist...
...Author John D. Davis, onetime professor of history at Smith, has embedded a bale of fun among his footnotes. It is humbling stuff. If today's Pundit Walter Lippmann may be heard announcing Freud as "among the greatest who have contributed to thought," not so long ago President Garfield was having his "head read" and Walt Whitman was proudly reciting a poet's phrenological endowments in the preface to Leaves of Grass. Karl Marx took phrenology seriously, as did Bismarck and Darwin...
...discharge the Powers and Duties of the said office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President . . ." But the Constitution fails to define "inability," and does not say who shall determine when it starts and when it ceases. The problem arose during the 80 days that President James Garfield lived after he was shot in 1881, and during President Woodrow Wilson's long illness in 1919-20. The Vice Presidents in both cases, Chester A. Arthur under Garfield, and Thomas ("What this country needs is a good 5? cigar") Marshall under Wilson, did not act for the President...
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...wrong most of the time; they buy stocks when prices are high and sell when prices fall. But in recent years, market experts who have taken pains to study the actions of the little investor think that the old saw is wrong. One such expert is Boston's Garfield A. Drew, proprietor of an investment advisory service, who has traced odd-lot transactions back...