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...Irish of the U. S.'s 24,000,000 population. Irish influence in U. S. affairs-particularly politics-was growing yearly. Most Irishmen were Democrats, and after the Civil War Irish-run political machines kept the Democratic Party alive in the North. They virtually elected Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. Secretary of State John Hay forever claimed that his hands were tied by bitter Irish anti-British sentiment, and it was the Irish voter who not only forced Cleveland to take a strong stand against Great Britain in the Venezuelan crisis...
...Under this chandelier, then in the White House, Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom were married...
...sure that Calvin Coolidge will not be remembered as a great constructive President, like Washington and Jackson and Lincoln and Wilson. Nor does he belong with the weaklings, with Pierce and Buchanan and Grant and Harding. His place is with John Quincy Adams and Rutherford B. Hayes and Grover Cleveland-with strong Presidents who had a few great issues to settle but whose integrity and sterling character have made them stand out more for what they were than for what they did." Such, this week, was the "definitive" guess of Biographer Fuess, 55-year-old headmaster of Andover. Specifically...
...Bell Aircraft, the Airacobra is a thesis in an aeronautics course which began 28 years ago. He left high school in Santa Monica, Calif, to become a mechanic for famed Lincoln Beachey-the "greatest flier" in many a pilot's lexicon-and for his own big brother, Grover Bell. Next year death came to Grover Bell in a crash, and discouraged Larry left the game. But by the time Beachey was killed in 1915 Larry Bell was back as a mechanic for Early-Bird Glenn L. Martin (whose firm was then listed in the Los Angeles telephone book under...
...Friday, Sept. 6, 1872, Sheriff Grover Cleveland hanged matricidal Patrick Morrissey, 29. One of the sheriff's deputies braced himself with brandy, offered to spring the trap. "No," said Grover Cleveland, "I have to do it myself. I am the sheriff and that's part of the sheriff's duties...