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...News-Times: "The death of George D. Stevens, paper-mill executive and philanthropist, is the cause of sorrow and widespread regret in this community. . . . Those who knew him best cherished his friendship the most. His philanthropies were large, but the extent of his benevolences was never submitted to public gaze...
...condition that Hetch Hetchy power should never fall for resale into the hands of a private corporation. Claiming at first that their deal was an emergency measure, later that it was not a resale but an agency contract, the city and P. G. & E. managed to avoid the gaze of Secretary of Interior Hubert Work, drew a warning from Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, finally fell afoul of Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes. Three years ago Ickes forced the City of San Francisco into court...
Under the benign gaze of a life-size statue of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the marquee of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles billed: "'Confusion Say' Vividly Illustrated...
...Great Britain's 9,000,000 licensed radio sets. He disparages British war aims, takes precise potshots at slum conditions, colonial policies, commiserates with war-discomforted Britons at home. As the Socialist Forward recently warned: "He blandly takes the British public by the ear and turns its startled gaze on the examples of incompetence and even criminal injustice of our politicians," singling out facts which "a smug press has succeeded in keeping out of the headlines...
...family of Hartford, Conn., though little Pierpont's grandfather, red-nosed, craggy-faced Abolitionist Preacher John Pierpont of Boston, had fights with some of his non-Abolitionist parishioners. In his school days "Pip" was a fun-loving, feverish, arrogant character with a temper and a direct, wide-open gaze. He and Joe Wheeler, later a Confederate cavalry leader, risked their necks and expulsion to carve their initials on the school belfry. While Father Junius Morgan was becoming a rich merchant banker in Boston and London, Pierpont went to school at Vevey, Switzerland ("makes fun of things," noted the schoolmaster...