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When she was 25 Patty Smith Hill was running a model kindergarten in Louisville, Ky. Grover Cleveland was President and Lillian Russell was the talk of Broadway. One day, Patty Hill's sister, Mildred, wrote a jingling little tune to which Patty fitted words. They published the song, copyrighted it, and sometimes Patty Hill would sing thus to her kindergarten children...
...James McCauley Landis (1921), Federal Trade Commissioner who is slated to chairman the Federal Securities & Exchange Commission. Harold Willis Dodds and his earnest young men have a high mark to shoot at. Princeton's tradition of public service goes back to Alumnus-Professor-President Woodrow Wilson, to Grover Cleveland, longtime trustee and lecturer, and finally to the great years between 1769 and 1812. From exactly 1,000 men whom Princeton graduated in those years the U. S. chose one President (James Madison), two Vice Presidents (Aaron Burr and George Mifflin Dallas), six Continental Congressmen, 31 U. S. Senators...
...President of the U. S., the Creeks were looking with awe and reverence on a child that had been born among them near Fort Sill. Like most primitive peoples they regarded half-wits as inspired. Nearly fifty years passed and the inspired child grew to middle age. In Grover Cleveland's time he was making 75? a day as a farm hand near Henryetta, Okla., living in a miserable shack, dressing in dirty blankets. The people of Henryetta knew him as Crazy Jack but on the Government's records he was set down as Jackson Barnett...
...Last week this venerable institution celebrated its sesquicentennial. Each & every employe got half a month's salary as a bonus. A privately printed history of its first 150 years was written by no less a person than Allan Nevins, last year's Pulitzer Prize winner (Grover Cleveland}. Clients and depositors, many of them lineal descendants of original customers, sent armfuls of flowers. To become 17th president of Bank of New York John C. Traphagen went through the bank's usual ritual. A Chase National vice president, he was first nominated by the trustees for the requisite...
...years of happiness. ... I think, Mr. President, you will agree with me when I say that 14 years of exile is a far greater punishment than five years in a military prison." The President received this plea last week from the namesake of another famed Democratic President, Draft-Dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, now living in Germany. The President sent it to Attorney General Cummings...