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Died. Charles MacVeagh, 71, onetime (1925-29) U.S. Ambassador to Japan, onetime (1901-25) general solicitor and assistant general counsel to U.S. Steel Corp., father of Publisher Lincoln MacVeagh; after long illness; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...poet (A Handy Guide for Beggars, The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems, Rhymes to be Traded for Bread, Every Soul is a Circus); of heart disease; in Springfield, Ill. Born into a pioneer Springfield family (he was later to become preoccupied with local history, with Springfield's Abraham Lincoln), he studied for the ministry at Hiram College (Ohio) then at the Chicago Art Institute and the New York School of Art. From 1905 to 1910 he did Y. M. C. A. work, lectured for the Anti-Saloon League. Rugged, unkempt, Poet Lindsay liked to vagabond about the land, trading...
...President Hoover last week appointed Robert Lincoln O'Brien of Dedham, Mass, to be chairman of the Tariff Commission, vice Henry Prather Fletcher, resigned. New England's insistent demand for commission representation by a thoroughgoing protectionist brought about the appointment. A Republican now, Mr. O'Brien began life as a low-tariff Democrat. Grover Cleveland plucked him from the Boston Transcript office for a private secretary upon his second presidential nomination in 1892, kept him on at the White House until 1895. The Bryan nomination of 1896 turned Mr. O'Brien Republican. A journalist...
...years his parentage was unknown to him. His mother took him to Cincinnati at the age of five, then disappeared. He lived in a drygoods box with another urchin, sold newspapers, blacked boots. Placed in an orphanage, he escaped in 1865 and by selling "extras" telling of Lincoln's assassination accumulated $4.50, went to Toledo to look for his mother. His impression that she had brought him from Toledo to Cincinnati was verified in 1890, when an aunt read press accounts of his life-he was then general counsel for the Burlington-and told him that his mother...
Other books: Bismarck, Lincoln, Schliemann (TIME, June...