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...hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz Lee.*- I had thought," continued the sabre-tongued Senator from the side of his mouth, "that I would like to go to heaven and commune with the spirits of Patrick Henry, Clay and Calhoun, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. But, like old Jube, I seem disposed to change my mind, and to go, temporarily, to the other place to see the devil when he burns those strange uniforms off of some people who think they are Democrats but don't believe in the reserved rights...
Eight years later the same young sheriff was elected Mayor of Buffalo, nine years later Governor of New York, twelve years later, on March 4, 1885, he, Stephen Grover Cleveland, became the first hang man President...
...summer of 1935, seven smart Manhattanites, including George McAneny, banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most...
...Fair promoters are asking in all more than $4,000,000. Last spring when the bills for the first appropriation of $2,130,000 seemed to be lagging at Albany, Mr. McAneny resigned as president of the World's Fair Corporation, was succeeded by orchidaceous but politically shrewd Grover Whalen. Mr. Whalen went to Albany and a few days later the bills were passed...
...donned a topper and traveled by ferry to little Bedloe Island in New York Harbor. There he joined President Albert Lebrun of France, who spoke by radio from Paris, in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty (see p. 27). Said the President, repeating Grover Cleveland's pledge in dedicating the statue: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected." Said Herbert Hoover later in Denver: "Two days ago [Mr. Roosevelt] rededicated the Statue of Liberty in New York. She has been the Forgotten Woman...