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Authorities who have agreed to attend the meetings and take part in the discussions are: Joseph C. Green, of the Department of State; Russell C. Lefling-well, member of J. P. Morgan and Company; Frank L. Polk, acting Secretary of State 1918-19; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., '09, author and politician; William H. Standley, former chief of Naval Operations; Raymond Gram Swing, correspondent in Berlin during the War; and Oswald Garrison Villard '93, former editor of the Nation...
...House's 46 Speakers since 1789, only one-James K. Polk-ever became President. Many, nonetheless, have left their mark on U. S. history much more indelibly than President Polk. As Speaker- the title is derived from the ancient custom of the House of Commons which, voteless, sent a member to the King to speak for them-men like Henry Clay, James G. Elaine, Joseph Cannon, Champ Clark and Nicholas Longworth have used their authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure...
...Manhattan, all but twelve passengers were ordered off the President Polk, in San Francisco 48 round-the-world tourists were turned out of the President Harrison and both vessels were given freighters' licenses which limit passengers to twelve. Passenger certificates lifted from other lines included the British owned Western Prince, which sails under U. S. Marine inspection certificate and United Fruit's liner Tivvies. Quickly the Dollar Line found means to make the long delayed alterations. Within a week the Presidents Pierce and Taft were extending their fire detecting systems and plans were completed to equip the line...
This summer the ticks got so bad in Florida's Orange, Osceola, Polk, Charlotte, Hendry and Collier counties that...
...Mexican War in 1846 gave Publisher Abel a chance to prove his mettle as a fast newsgatherer. With a relay of telegraph lines, railroads, steamboats, stagecoaches and "60 blooded horses," the Sun brought news of the capture of Vera Cruz to President James Knox Polk before his own War Department heard about it. With speed in harvesting news, Publisher Abell also wanted speed in printing it. and to this end, he and his Philadelphia partners were first to use the Hoe cylinder press.* Next great progressive step of the Sun was its Iron Building, put up in 1851, first office...