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Among those who offered fowl roosts too high for careful Calvin Coolidge was rich Mrs. John B. Henderson, Washington socialite, nonagenarian widow of a Senator from Missouri, who has seen all Presidents from Lincoln to Hoover. Long has she labored to build up Washington's Meridian Hill district into a paradise of embassies and official buildings along an "Avenue of the Presidents." She asked Congress to let the Vice President live in her $300,000 mansion on 15th Street. Representative Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont prepared a bill accepting Mrs. Henderson's gift for the nation, and appropriating...
Where do most Senators go from the Senate? People often wonder. Some, of course, stay in the public-eye?Atlee Pomerene of Ohio by being oil scandals lawyer (see p. 12); Elihu Root by continuing as a patriarch of the bar; Chauncey Depew by becoming a nonagenarian. Others become somewhat obscure. James Duval Phelan is an opulent San Francisco booster & developer. Magnus Johnson still farms the Minnesota dirt whence sprouted his short fame. Dr. Irwin France of Maryland travels and keeps up his interest in Guernsey cows. Truman Handy Newberry of Michigan keeps up his club memberships, helps direct banks...
...present there are one centenarian, one nonagenarian, six octogenarians and many a septuagenarian in a Senate that numbers only 96 members...
Fully 300 "votes-for-women" veterans were there. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Maud Wood Park. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton?they were there. The Vice Presidents of the Republican and Democratic National Committees (Mrs. Hert and Mrs. Blair respectively)?they were there. Nonagenarian Mrs. Hester M. Poole of New Hampshire?she, the eldest, was there. Heroic memories of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Anna Howard Shaw?they were there...
...problem of this second group was treated, last week, by the classic nonagenarian of the U. S., in almost classic, although not scientific, language. Chauncey M. Depew, approaching his 91st birthday (Apr. 23) wrote for Collier's Weekly...