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Since 1906, one George Archambeau, 61, has been janitor in the Harvard School of Architecture in the old Fogg Museum Building. Among his duties has been dusting the statues in the Fogg entrance hall, which include that of William Crown inshield Endicott, Secretary of War under Grover Cleveland, sculptured by John Wilson of the School of Architecture. Janitor Archambeau has long been an intimate of the school's instructors and students, a patient listener-in on all sorts of architectural talk. For the past year he played pinochle every Sunday night with Instructor Wilson. Last week, as George Archambeau...
Samuel Seabury, sailing for Europe, compared the Governor to Grover Cleveland and the Mayor's resignation to a confession of guilt. And seven million New Yorkers had a new chief executive in the person of 43-year-old Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee...
...America, she is not even president of one of its Branches, and I would like very much to have you correct this error. Mrs. Joy is a vice president of the Detroit, Mich. Branch of the Needlework Guild of America. Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr., the former Mrs. Grover Cleveland, is president of the Needlework Guild of America, and I am sure you will realize this is not a very pleasant kind of an error to come out in your magazine, for many of our 750 Branches of the Guild...
...mind, Senator Barkley wound up his keynote thus: "There's nothing wrong with our people except that they have followed prophets who were false, blind and insensible. It was so in 1800 when Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was so in 1828 when Andrew Jackson. ... It was so in 1884 when Grover Cleveland. ... It was so in 1912 when Woodrow Wilson. ... It will be so in 1932. . . . The new commander we shall present will be the choice no less of farm than of city dwellers. He will be experienced and tested no less in national than in state affairs. . . . We pledge...
...Stribling gave the first spin to a projected three-novel cycle about the South. He told of the fortunes and misfortunes of the Vaiden family during the Civil War. The Store tells particularly of Col. Miltiades Vaiden and his rise to notoriety in Florence, Ala., about the time of Grover Cleveland's presidencies. Written in the great tradition of well-peopled novels, the book successfully commingles impartial observation and ubiquitous sympathy, tinged with a faintly subacid humor. In pitch, scope, execution it is easily the most important U. S. novel of the year. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, a vastly human character...