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...that "from a modern class of over 500 men, obviously no selection of 45 (and including the Elihu Club, which has fallen into the system, 601 men can longer be possible on the old basis," it reprinted a "courageous" letter written to the Yale Daily News by Wilder Hobson, a 1928 member of Scroll...
...dead. ... To the house came the President of the U. S. who bowed his head and moved his lips silently. Also came the Vice President,* members of the Cabinet, a dozen Senators, nearly 100 members of the House. At Christ Church, too small for everybody, Bishop Coadjutor Henry Wise Hobson conducted the brief Episcopal service. At Spring Grove cemetery near the Longworth shaft of granite the Speaker was laid away in the ground while an airplane etched against a very blue sky dropped roses...
Joshua of the world fight against the narcotic trade is Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who sat in Manhattan last week with dope-haters of 21 countries. They were whipping up interest in Narcotic Education Week and preparing agenda for a World Conference at Geneva this...
...Captain Hobson is an almost forgotten hero. When he was young and in the U. S. Navy, the U. S. went to war with Spain. Just before Roosevelt rode up San Juan Hill in Cuba, Captain Hobson rode boats around the island. The Spanish fleet cowered in Santiago Harbor. Captain Hobson took command of the coal-carrier Merrimac and sank her at the harbor's entrance in a vain attempt to bottle up the Spanish fleet. Spanish sailors caught Captain Hobson. They courteously offered him a swig of liquor. He refused it, took a gulp of coffee. The Spaniards kept...
...years later Captain Hobson re tired from the Navy and went into the politics of Alabama, where he was born. He was in Congress as a Representative from 1907 to 1915. He was the first Congressman to introduce a bill for a Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution. From alcohol he leaped to narcotics. Now, 60, a confirmed zealot, he has homes in Los Angeles and Manhattan, communities salty with drugs. Last week he was in Manhattan to blow a large blast against the Jericho of dope...