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...when William McKinley called him to Washington to become Comptroller of the Currency, Brother Charles called Brother Rufus up from Marietta to run his gas companies. When he came back to found Central Trust Co. of Illinois in 1902, Rufus became cashier. Brother Henry came along a few years later, has been on the job ever since. Brother Beman was the family playboy. The others graduated from Marietta College at 19; Beman did not graduate at all. He organized one of the nation's great oil companies (Pure Oil), then left most of its management to Henry. Beman preferred...
...Gabriel Hamlet. He is 58, the big-boned, white-haired son of a New England revenue cutter captain. One of his first jobs with the Coast Guard was on the famed cutter Bear, rescuing distressed whaling ships in the Arctic. In the War he commanded the converted yacht convoy Marietta. Since 1928 Admiral Hamlet has been superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. His new appointment fills the post left vacant by Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, who died last month of pneumonia, after overtaxing his strength by directing, from his bed, the Coast Guard...
From Ashtabula to Cincinnati, from Toledo to Marietta good Democrats everywhere marched to the primary polls to pick delegates to cast Ohio's 52 pivotal votes in next month's national convention. No native son of theirs had ever got closer to the White House than James Middletn Cox in 1920, who missed it by seven million votes. But now there was a distinct chance that the "Mother of Presidents ? would not only give the Democratic party another nominee but also put him, the first of his kind, into the Presidency...
Died. Joseph M. ("Little Joe") Brown, So, twice Governor of Georgia; after a long illness; in Marietta, Ga. His political tussles with the late Hoke Smith for party leadership kept Georgia Democrats in turmoil for 25 years. In 1928 Brown and Smith were finally reconciled in support of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Undersized...
...Marietta is the prize daughter of the Malory family, so much livelier, prettier than her younger sister that Lucile never seems to have a chance. Yet Lucile gets engaged to Timothy Sheldon, whom Marietta fancies for herself. To stop the marriage she persuades her mother to have Lucile examined for tuberculosis; finds that she has a touch of it herself. In Switzerland, where she retires to recover, she meets up with young American Eugene Monk, becomes his mistress to spite herself. As soon as they get back to Paris she throws him over. To divert her jealousy of Timothy...