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...Allan Nevins edition of the diaries of James K. Polk, U. S. President, 1845-49 (up to then our youngest President; seven successive terms a Congressman; Speaker of the House; Governor of Tennessee; President at 49) are found the following entries...
...Admits Pundit Lippmann: "I never knew a President or heard of one who didn't want to be re-elected until I heard of James K. Polk. I stand corrected...
...Presidents, twelve have been known Masons: George Washington (Past Master), James Monroe, Andrew Jackson (Grand Master), James K. Polk (Royal Arch), James Buchanan (Past Master), Andrew Johnson (32nd Degree), James A. Garfield (14th Degree), William McKinley (Knight Templar), Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding (33rd Degree), Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd Degree). (Whether Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were Masons is a moot question...
...Franciscans went indigenous and played Old West in the streets for days before their fair's official opening. They renamed Polk Street "Polk Gulch" and hung out signs like "Red eye, 15?. Black eye, free." In San Francisco they know how to give parties and this was one given by the whole city to the vanguard of 4,000,000 visitors from other States who they estimate will spend $400,000,000 in California this year, $240,000,000 of it right in San Francisco. For a tourist's map of that city...
Handsome Henry Clay Alexander graduated from Vanderbilt in 1923, from Yale Law School in 1925. On his Yale record he got a job with Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (Morgan lawyers). Bright work and sound judgment earned him his law partnership in 1935. At 36, Henry Alexander will now pool his legal brains with Partner Russell C. Leffingwell's and Partner Charles Steele...