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Died. William Tyler Page, 74, clerk of the House of Representatives from 1919 to 1931, "minority clerk emeritus" thereafter, House employe for over 60 years; on his birthday; in Chevy Chase, Md. He went to work as a Congressional page when he was 13; Chester A. Arthur was President. As clerk, bald, trim-mustached, meticulous Page wore a tailcoat, a white-edged vest, and manners to match. He became an authority on Congressional procedure. The 100-word American's Creed, which he wrote in World War I, is still one of the Printing Office's bestsellers...
...little Frederick, Md. (pop. 15,802) last week came an object lesson in war financing. In the Civil War, the town was threatened with destruction by Confederate General Jubal Early, chose instead to meet his $200,000 ransom demand, borrowed the money from its five banks. The debt could have been repaid by a $25 emergency tax on each of the 8,000 residents in 1864. But last week the contemporary city fathers, struggling to repay the loan out of ordinary revenues, figured they had already spent $331,000 in interest, would not have their Civil War debt finally liquidated...
...Army, Navy, CAA, the U.S. Office of Education Wartime Commission. But the main push came from the high schools themselves - for months they have urged such a scheme upon the Office of Education. Many a high school has already started its own unofficial victory corps. In Sandy Spring, Md., for example, the principal tore up his old curriculum, got his youngsters busy drilling, exercising, apple picking, bandage rolling, taking care of working mothers' children, doing the school's janitor work, studying flying...
...granddaughter of the late William Gibbs McAdoo, President Wilson's wartime Secretary of the Treasury; and Naval Reserve Lieut, (j.g.) Peter Meldrim Coy, 22, son of the late great Yale fullback Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy (onetime husband of the late great Actress Jeanne Eagels); in Worthington Valley, Md...
Washington reporters still remember his campaign speech at the Fair Grounds in Hagerstown, Md. The grandstand was packed, the open speaker's platform surrounded by newsmen and telegraphers. But as Knox stood up to speak, lightning flashed, thunder rattled and rain fell in streams. The public-address system went dead; telegraph lines were washed out, everybody around the platform broke for cover. All but Knox: he stuck it out in the deluge as long as he could stand it, soaked to the skin, reading doggedly through his manuscript, grinning, gesturing. Few could hear...