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...Frank Finley Merriam had stayed in Iowa where he was born 68 years ago he would have been spared a lot of trouble last week. He taught school, published a newspaper, gravitated from the Midwest to Long Beach. Calif., became a bank president, a realtor, a Knight of Pythias, a politician, and six weeks ago upon the death of James Rolph Jr., Governor of California just in time to face the best brand of California dynamite?a strike...
...English language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold copies and all rights, of his dictionary, settled down to being a one-book publisher. It brought out the 400,000-entry New International, tenth complete revision of Noah Webster, in 1909, coasted along with that for 15 years. But only a dead language stands...
...Secretary of Labor for careful study and to undertake any negotiations that seem advisable. The Secretary is fully empowered to represent me in taking whatever action seems advisable under the circumstances. . . ." Then Mr. Roosevelt departed gaily for the crew races at New London. When appealed to there by Governor Merriam of California for settlement of the Pacific Coast longshoremen's strike (TIME, June 25), he promptly wired back that Miss Perkins was in charge. She was. She had already telegraphed San Francisco a proposal to mediate the only issue still in dispute. Meantime she had also telephoned...
...following of the 50 Sons of '09 attending Harvard were at the luncheon: Samuel N. Bicknell '35, Herbert W. Hines, Jr. '34, Bernard F. Merriam 11, '36, H. Minot Pitman, Jr. '37, Oliver E. Rodgers '36, Edward L. Rogers '36, John E. Rogerson '34, Fred B. Stevens '35, C. Malcolm Watkins, Jr. '34, Henry R. Watson, Jr. '35, Richard L. Whipple '37, Charles L. Whipple '35, and Henry N. Withington...
...shoes last year for $13.87). His administration was nationally criticized in 1932 when he refused to pardon famed Convict Tom Mooney, and in 1933 when he declared he would pardon the lynchers of the kidnap-murderers of Brooke Hart if they were arrested (TIME, Dec. 4). Frank F. Merriam succeeds him as Governor...