Word: philipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After which quaint reference by Banker James Speyer to a national custom which it is the Treasury Department's function to enforce, Secretary Andrew Mellon heard his signal services to the country acclaimed, and beheld his likeness, brushed in oils by fashionable Painter Philip de Laszlo (who lately painted President and Mrs. Coolidge), presented to the New York Chamber of Commerce, to hang in company with those of his predecessors-including great Alexander Hamilton, clever Albert Gallatin, honest John Sherman. Mr. Speyer spoke in Manhattan, in behalf of 500 Chambermen subscribers to a Mellon portrait fund...
...last week a bill appeared in the House to authorize a $30,000 memorial to the 93rd Division (Colored) in France. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York (onetime officer of the 93rd Division) was its sponsor. Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland a member of the Battle Monuments Commission urged that it was unwise for the House to begin designating specific monuments. The Democrats in general joined him (a Republican) in opposition, protesting that they were not raising a race question, but supporting a principle. But the House, in acting mood, could not be deterred, passed the bill...
...Philip Snowden (Laborite Chancellor in 1924): "The proposed betting tax is immoral and would outrage the sacred feelings of a vast number of Britons. ... It would be almost impossible of collection...
...Waterman Thayer of Boston. R. W. Thayer was the only one of the sub-chairmen who had not been chosen before. Members of the Committee, Julius Henry Appleton of Springfield, Nathan Spencer Barnes of Passadena, Cal., George Neal Burns of Rochester, N. Y., George Joseph Cleary of Naugatuck, Conn., Philip Ives Dunne, of New York City, Robert, Bigelow Gowing of Boston, Alfred Herman Hersch of White Plains, N. Y., Paul Albert Newsome of Lorain, O., Philip Hamilton Rhinelander of Gloucester, Ernest Stent of San Francisco, Cal., and Donald Weisman of New York City...
Albert Smith Bigelow of Brookline, Philip Hichborn of Washington, D. C., David William Houck of Buffalo, N. Y., Guy Murchie Jr. of Dedham, and Chauncey Devereux Stillman of New York City...