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...accurately pointed out that his achievements at Paris were far more significant than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal the City Government, long habituated to receiving great personages amid blazing publicity, squarely placed itself. A welcoming commission, including Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Railroader Patrick Crowley et al. was duly named. Students of public psychology waited to see what pitch of enthusiasm could be aroused in the populace by a public reception to a man whose triumph was mental, not physical...
Last week Democracy gave a dinner party in Washington to honor Jouett Shouse, new executive committee chairman. Because National Committee Chairman John Jacob Raskob attended as prime guest-speaker, an incipient anti-Brown Derby revolt briefly threatened to wreck the good purposes of this gathering...
Owen D. Young caught the Aquitania last week, and it was important that he should do so. On June 15 he was due to be in Cleveland, calling the world's attention to the marriage of his sober-minded son, Charles Jacob, to Miss Esther Mary Christensen, talented black-and-white artist, chic daughter of Danish inventor and Vice Consul Niels Anton Christensen...
...having left his mark indelibly upon Cornell?, President White went to Germany as U. S. Minister. In a like capacity he went to Russia in 1892. There began a tradition. Cornell's second president, Charles Kendall Adams, administered from 1885 to 1892. Then came Jacob Gould Schurman. In 1899, Dr. Schurman was chief of the first U. S. Commission to the Philippines. In 1912-13 he served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro. After resigning from Cornell in 1920, he was U. S. Ambassador to China. Now, since 1925, he has been a successor to Co-Founder White...
Died. John Dickinson, 12, of Chicago, grandson of Tart-time Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson; in Chicago; by accidentally hanging himself at play...