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...could handle. Tycoons besieged his studio. One New York gallery offered him $5,000,000 to come to New York and do a series of 300 portraits. Billy Orps turned it down. He had all the portraits he could possibly do right in London at $10,000 apiece. Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, William Wallace Atterbury are among the U. S. businessmen who traveled to London to be limned by the little Irishman. During the War, British authorities pinned the gold crowns of a major on his shoulders, clapped a tin helmet on his head and sent...
...president of the World's Peace Congress in 1915, vice president of the American Peace Society. He feared and worked to avert the World War, but said later: "Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward." In 1924 he received the Raphael Hermann peace prize of $25,000. A Cornell graduate, he was president of the National Educational Association in 1915, member of many a learned society, an advocate of simplified spelling. Pioneer "liberal" among educators. Dr. Jordan built up Stanford University, was its well-beloved first president from 1891 to 1913, guided...
...businesslike. He has studied early U. S. music, written the sole biography of Composer Stephen Collins Foster, com posed songs, organ pieces and operettas. Lately he has devoted all his time to organ-playing and managing the N. A. O. and the National Music League which, with Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn as its president, helps young U. S. musicians get ahead. Last month he represented U. S. organists at the Anglo-American Music Conference at Lausanne, Switzerland...
...Hans Hartmann and Dr. Karl Wien passed the spot, which was by no means too difficult for skilled mountaineers. Hermann Schaller was just about to ascend the steep couloir, and I watched him from near by; for my rope team, consisting of Hans Prischer, myself and a porter, was to follow at once...
...years, but heavy-jawed Plutarco Elias Calles is still The Jefe (Boss), the strongest man in Mexico. Last week Boss Calles rode high in his saddle. In an effort to end the country's financial difficulties he had himself mada President of the Bank of Mexico, became what Hermann Schmitz is in Germany: the country's "money tsar...