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Serene, undisheveled, he hastened away, to a reception at which he expected to meet fellow theosophists-Craig Biddle of Philadelphia, Mrs. Theus Munds of Manhattan, Major General James Henry McRae, Architect Claude Bragdon-as at Manhattan he had expected to greet Artist James Montgomery Flagg...
Died. William B. Clover, 56, former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, onetime reporter for the Cleveland Press and correspondent of the Scripps-McRae League of newspapers, organizer of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance; in Washington...
Mathias (Penn State), Dowding (Georgetown), Reynolds (U. S. C.), McRae (Stan), Dikeman (Princeton), Bates (Penn State...
...days, with their "contemporaneous ancestor" among them, Scout Leaders made plans for the coming year. New officials, men of prominence, were elected: Walter W. Head of Omaha, President (succeeding Milton A. McRae of Detroit); Mortimer L. Schiff of Oyster Bay, Vice President, also Milton A. McRae; George D. Pratt, Treasurer; Daniel Carter Beard, National Scout Commissioner (re-elected). The honorary officers include Calvin Coolidge, President, and Vice Presidents William H. Taft, William G. McAdoo, Colin H. Livingstone...
TIME commented as follows re E. W. Scripps: "He founded the Scripps-McRae syndicate of 28 newspapers. Aged 71, he is a hermit-millionaire, a sea hermit (like the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer) sailing the seven seas on a yacht with padded decks. Again like Pulitzer, he cannot bear noise; his officers run his crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore...