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...Owen D. Young (General Electric); Philadelphia's George Harrison Houston (Baldwin Locomotive) ; Cleveland's Lewis Blair Williams (Hayden, Miller & Co.): Washington's Edwin Charles Graham (National Electrical Supply ); Atlanta's George Simmons Harris (Exposition Cotton Mills); Chicago's Sewell Lee Avery (Montgomery Ward); St. Louis' James W. Harris (Harris-Polk Hats); Minneapolis' George Draper Dayton (department store); Kansas City's Joseph Franklin Porter (Kansas City Power & Light); Wichita Falls' Frank Kell (Kell Mill & Elevator Co.); San Francisco's Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury (Standard Oil of California...
...Hoover, 41 years White House usher (whose "consideration of others is unfailing"). Other nominees: Novelist Benjamin Kittredge; Artist Olin Dows soft-drawling Lawyer Frank Lyon Polk, Wilsonian Undersecretary of State; Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham; Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Actor George Arliss...
...successful dark horse on the other hand is usually colorless. He is the man without active enemies, without a striking record in national politics. He is essentially a compromise candidate brought forward when a deadlock has been reached between more outstanding aspirants. Consider James K. Polk in 1844, Horation Seymour, Democratic nominee in 1868, James A. Garfield in 1880, and Warren G. Harding...
...This wonderful sanctuary," cried Dr. Norwood last week, "is filled with presences and faces, and I accept them all as good chums of mine. . . . Joan of Arc, one of my favorite saints, marches across the marble, and in the marble altar, given by Maria Dehon Polk in memory of my son, I can see my son's face, as he looked when a small...
...work it is impossible to determine how many life portraits are extant. Charles Willson Peale is responsible for about 67 portraits and miniatures of 14 general types; Raphaelle Peale, his eldest son, at least two: Rembrandt Peale, his second son, six; James Peale, his younger brother, II; Charles Peale Polk, his nephew, numerous copies. John Trumbull and Edward Savage, eleven each; Houdon, seven statues; Gilbert Stuart, 16 paintings of the Vaughan type with head turned left, about four or five each of the Lansdowne and Monro-Lenox type with head and eyes turned right and more than 70 variations...