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The next appearance was at Old Fort, N. C., where it looked as though Candidate Smith might make a speech. But George W. Sandlin, the local orator, got into action first, with a historical sketch of Old Fort. Then a conductor called "All aboard."
Mayor Walker had been chosen to make the big speech and accept the memorial for the nation partly because he had helped raise the money, partly because friends of Governor Smith were influential in the memorial association, partly because James John Walker, regarded as a "wisecracker" at home, is accounted...
Later than it does to most men, Death came last week to Chauncey Mitchell Depew, after-dinner orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, spectator of U. S. national affairs since the Mexican War, aged 94 years less three weeks. A bronchial infection, picked up after a winter in Florida, turned into pneumonia...
While the securities of his company were soaring to unprecedented heights on the New York Stock Exchange last week (see p. 38), Major Gen. James G. Harbord, president of the Radio Corporation of America, made a speech to some women Republicans in Manhattan. Said he: "The change that will be...
The maker of this flattering comparison was the U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, suave Hugh Simons Gibson, who represented the U. S. before the League. The new hero, the orator who was discovered to resemble Cicero, is Baron Cushendun, who last fall replaced Viscount Cecil of Chelwood at Geneva.