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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well that I want to be reminded of it by having a copy of TIME'S cartoon framed and hung in my den. Your cartoonist has put prime "wattles" on President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, Senator Vare, Senator Borah and "Big Bill" Thompson. HENRY HARRIMAN TYLER New Rochelle, N...
...Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, U. S. N. (retired); Dr. F. L. Patton, onetime president of Princeton University...
Consideration of old age makes young people think of famed old people. The U. S. has one important centenarian? Emily Rowland of Sherwood, N. Y. Right after the Civil War she worked establishing schools for Negroes in Virginia. She was an early worker for women's rights, temperance (alcoholic), peace, education. Nov. 20 she will be 101. She is unmarried...
...Emile Loubet, President of the French Republic, 1899-1906; Edward P. Weston, long distance walker, now witless ; Gen. Valeriano Weyler, Spanish commander in Cuba in war of 1898; David A. Boody, onetime Mayor of Brooklyn, financier; Dr. Alpheus Baker Hervey, onetime (1888-94) president of St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., whom Owen D. Young and other reverent business men honored a fortnight ago with a celebration...
Prohibition was also the aperitif at the Boston clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons last week. Franklin N. Martin of Chicago, president of the College, interrupted his formal inaugural talk to say: "More than two-thirds of our people morally and spiritually favor the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. In spite of the injudicious administration, which has resulted in an orgy of lawbreaking, of self-indulgence and ridicule on the part of the other one-third of our citizens, the foundation has been laid for a demonstration of race betterment and extension of life that will astonish...