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...Richardson, probably the first great genius among American architects, built twin houses on La Fayette Square in Washington, D. C. One was the home of Henry Adams, historian, man of letters; in the other lived John Hay, statesman. Mr. Hay became Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, then Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. Imperceptibly, inevitably, the salon appeared. Henry Adams and John LaFarge would come in, chattering feverishly about the sculpture of Augustus St. Gaudens; Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge would play "a game in which they were always liable to find...
...tranquil afternoon, John Hay would look out of his windows on La Fayette Square, watch an "old corps commander or admiral of the Civil War, tottering along to the club for his cards or cocktail." Over there was where Mrs. Dolly Madison used to live after her husband died, there was the house of Daniel Webster, of William H. Seward, of Commodore Stephen Decatur. In 1905 John Hay died; so did the one great salon of the New World...
...came; the man who is President received the man who would like to be President; an executive who had pitched hay on a Vermont farm met an executive who had sold fish at the Fulton market. Historians, political observers, reporters, photographers yearned for ringside seats; but the gates of White Pine Camp clicked shut after the Governor and Mrs. Smith had entered...
...previous day's campaigning for renomination by the Democrats. When she heard what had happened, she proceeded to her home townlet of Temple right nearby, telephoned the executive mansion at Austin to say she was all right, and, when the sun shone once more, went on making political hay by calling in friends and appearing no whit shaken up by her experience...
...acquired 35,000 acres of land in Livingstone County, N. Y., have occasionally taken part in politics and not infrequently in wars. His father and grandfather fought in the Civil War; he himself served in the Spanish-American War. After warring he turned to farming. He married Alice Hay, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, in 1902, and since then has been much in politics. What is concerned chiefly in the present situation is that in earlier days he voted against the 18th Amendment and for the Volstead Act. He has been rated nominally Dry, but moist in inclination...