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...modern instances, Mr. Barry has written a book reanimating the great politicians of their younger days. It is a wandering book digressing confoundedly. The greater part of its space and the better part of its piquancy are allotted to the first two of the four decades in review. McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson pass through with dignified despatch at the end. Perhaps too many of the dramatis personae of the later acts are still living, for Mr. Barry to tell his best anecdotes of them...
...Antonio in the presence of 100,000 people. The pilots were Captain H. E. Honeywell, Kansas City Cooperative Club, making his 550th ascent; Herbert von Thaden, Detroit Aviation Society; Major Norman W. Peek, U. S. Air Service Balloon No. 1; Captain Edmund W. Hill and Lieutenant Ashley C. McKinley, two other Air Service pilots; W. T. Van Norman, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The construction of a balloon is comparatively simple. It consists of a huge bag some 30 or more feet in diameter, spherical in cut but assuming an egg shaped form with the bigger...
Republican Presidents Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Arthur, McKinley, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, were mixed up in a paragraph by Franklin D. Roosevelt and despatched to Manhattan to be read at the annual Jefferson Day dinner of the National Democratic Club. Wrote Mr. Roosevelt...
...President himself; the administration of President Grant was marred by grave scandals reaching into the Cabinet itself; the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur were filled with such serious patronage scandals that civil service reform was forced through by an indignant country; the administration of President McKinley saw the graft and rottenness of the War Department and other bureaus during and following the Spanish-American War; the Administration of President Taft stirred the country with its Ballinger episode, and that nation is now shocked by the events which have occurred since March 4, 1921. On the other...
COMMITTEE ON MANUFACTURES TO INVESTIGATE SALE OF FUR SEAL SKINS BY GOVERNMENT-Senators La Follette (Chairman), McNary, McKinley, Weller, Reed (Pa.), Brookhart, Smith (S. C.), Reed (Mo.), Harris, Edwards, Wheeler, Johnson (Minn...