Word: john
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Banker, violinist, politician, student, diplomatist, orator, composer, Charles Gates Dawes is also a lawyer. He practiced from 1887 to 1894, as neighbor and contemporary of William Jennings Bryan and John Joseph Pershing, in Lincoln, Nebr...
Last week regular Virginia Democrats-i.e., those who supported their presidential ticket and lost the State to the G. O. P.-held their primary, chose as their candidate Prof. John Garland Pollard of William & Mary. Polling five-sevenths of the 140,000 votes cast, he far outran two rivals, who, for a united Democracy, immediately pledged him their support. The primary campaign had been mild and lulling. No bad feeling was permitted to creep in. Democratic ranks were closed simultaneously with the polls...
Evidently the Briton in the street had pricked up ears at "sponge cake," grinned approval at the project of ending John Bull's "henpecked husbandhood." The most amazing tribute came from Quebec, where famed Conservative Winston Churchill, immediate predecessor of Chancellor Snowden at the Exchequer, was lecture-touring last week. Said he warmly: "I think Snowden is opposing the Young Plan not on personal or party grounds but solely as an Englishman who wants fair play...
...that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings with a sound of pure silver because it was there that the late John William Mackay, Irish pioneer, struck the Comstock Lode in 1873, earning $1,850 for every 15? he had invested. And it is there that Clarence Hungerford Mackay has been endowing the State University in his father's memory ever since 1908. He gave a School of Mines that year, followed...
Last June there was graduated from the East Orange, N. J., High School one John Osborn Reid, 19, interested in science and planning to go to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. Often he had driven by the Edison Laboratories, only three miles from his home, wondered what the insides were like, speculated on the personality of Inventor Edison whom he had seen only in the cinemas. Last week he and 48 other boys, specially chosen as the "brightest" from each state and the District of Columbia, inspected the famed laboratory, met Thomas Alva Edison, matched knowledge in what...