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...Yalemen, sons of a missionary named Dwight, had the idea first. They interested a rich New York merchant named Christopher Rhinelander Robert, who in turn interested an oldtime U. S.' missionary in Turkey named Cyrus Hamlin. Merchant & missionary failed, however, to interest His Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. Then one fine day an imposing U. S. man-of-war steamed up the Bosporus with Admiral David Farragut aboard, for a courtesy call on the Sultan. His Imperial Majesty hastily reversed himself, handed the U. S. Legation a gracious iradé (permit) to build. Hence it happened that...
...high jump to William W. Shirk '38; George S. Haydock Memorial Cup for pole vault to Albert B. Carlson '38; Clarence C. Little Broad Jump Trophy to Emile Dubiel '37; Von Kersburg Trophy for hammer-throw to Chester H. Brown '37; Edward L. Farrell Shot Put Cup to E. Hamlin Turner Jr. '38; Donovan Discuss Trophy to Malcolm Millard '36; and the Jaakko Mikkola Javelin Cup to Jesse Kirk...
Happy last September was Simon Moulton Hamlin, lantern-jawed, 240-lb. strawberry farmer, when Maine's First District elected him its first Democratic Congressman in some 70 years. Happy was he last month when, at 68, he married the only woman who had ever been a census supervisor in Maine. Arriving in Washington a week later he happily informed interviewers that he had no intention of abiding by the House tradition of silence for first-termers. Twanged he: "I'm almost always foolish enough to speechify...
...precedent-breaking Representative was assigned to the House Memorials Committee, whose duty it is to compose sonorous resolutions of mourning on the deaths of Congressmen or notables. Because its other Democratic member was otherwise occupied, Congressman Hamlin was named the Committee's chairman. It was the first time in House history that a first-termer had been honored with a committee chairmanship, but the Gentleman from Maine did not rejoice. All one day last week eight large Negro charwomen toiled to prepare for him the House Office Building suite of the Memorials Committee chairman. But in his old office...
...Representative Hamlin's kinsman, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine who became Lincoln's first Vice President, declared on entering the Senate: "I shall be a working rather than a talking member...