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From Weinsberg, Germany, whither he fled from the U. S. as a draft-dodger 14 years ago, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wrote his first public letter to the Philadelphia Record. Rebutting charges that he had bribed his way to freedom from his Army captors, Dodger Bergdoll declared: "I never paid a cent of graft to anyone in the world, and I never intend to. If I were given to bribery I could easily have bribed myself into a rocking-chair job in the Army or Navy during the War and would have avoided all the trouble...
...Christmas present to 1,500 War-time agitators and draft dodgers. President Roosevelt issued an amnesty proclamation restoring civil rights to all who, convicted under the Espionage and Selective Service Acts, had served their sentences. Unaffected was the case of notorious Slacker Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, who escaped to Germany before serving sentence...
LETTERS OF GROVER CLEVELAND-Selected & edited by Allan Nevins-Houghton Mifflin...
...letters, written always for an audience but seldom for publication,* are apt to give a better likeness of him than his posed and dressed-up biographical portrait. If he was a good letter-writer, they are better reading. But Grover Cleveland was not a good letter-writer. Says Editor Allan Nevins, whose Life of Cleveland was the 1933 Pulitzer-Prizewinning biography: "It was characteristic of Cleveland that he wrote many letters about public business, few about his personal affairs or personal feelings...
HARVARD YALE England, g. g., Quayle Wemple, r.f.b. l.f.b., Murray Stent, l.f.b. r.f.b., Bates Morrill, r.h.b. l.h.b., Curtis Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., G. Fawcett Gummere, l.h.b. r.h.b., K. Fawcett Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Aspinwall Clos, r.i.f. l.i.f., Maxwell Manheimer, c.f. c.f., Upton Stork, l.i.f. r.i.f., Jordan Baxter, l.o.f. r.o.f., Coerr...