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...knew had taken no position ? that "speaking generally" its power companies were believed to be abstaining from intervening in the question of public ownership -won the approval of Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer of Manhattan; Mr. Untermeyer, famed orchid-wearing epicure, son of a "Virginia planter who served in the Confederate Army" (his paragraph in Who's Who) is not a man ordinarily to be found aligned with the House of Morgan and the power companies. Now 71, he has been an active lawyer for more than 50 years, possessor of a large fortune (one copper consolidation which he effected brought...
...cotton planter, Mr. Blackshear became Rector of St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn last June. The congregation knew he had been trained at the Virginia Theological Seminary and had done graduate work at Oxford and Harvard. They knew he was a captain in the War, cited for bravery. They knew he was 36 years old. What they did not realize was that like any true southerner Mr. Blackshear believes Negro and white civilization can at the best be parallel, never equal. This lesson he taught them dramatically at a Sunday service...
...those who thought the brutal, ancient German university custom of dueling had died there came a shock last week. In William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Frazier Hunt, onetime War correspondent & Mexican sugar planter, wrote that at Berlin "only the other day" he had witnessed two German students fight, not a Schlägermensur or sport duel, wherein undergraduates belabor one another with large, blunt broadswords, but a secret, illegal Säbelmensur, oldtime insult duel, with sharp sabres...
Start in life: Lawyer turned planter and politician...
...School, Charleston, the University of South Carolina (one year), Wofford College, Spartanburg, from which he was graduated, and Vanderbilt College which prepared him for the law (though he took no bar examinations). He served four years (1896-1900) in the State House of Representatives. Becoming a cotton planter (today he is the South's biggest planter in Congress) he took a prime part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent. In 1908 he was nominated ("receiving at that time...