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...young Samuel Jr. His arm still black-banded for the death of his wife last February, he hovered solicitously over his father, grinned at the Press, was quieter in court. Occasionally he stole a glance at the second row of the spectators' benches. There, straight and prim as a Quaker, sat his pretty mother. Last July she had followed her husband back from their European exile, travelling tourist class on the Majestic, announcing that she had come to stand by him. In Chicago she had abashed vociferous newshawks by gravely quoting : "Sweet are the uses of adversity...
Career: Of 300-year-old native stock, he was youngest of ten children in a Quaker family. Graduated from the Hudson High School, he supported himself by stenography before going West to matriculate at the University of Michigan. There he waited table, sold books, got his law degree in 1905. The great copper-mining camp at Butte, Mont, appealed to him as a place where a young lawyer without influence might make a living. Arrived there, he was preparing to push on to Portland, Ore. when two sharpers bilked him of his bankroll. He managed to get part...
Which outfit is to lead the League will be decided tomorrow when the two ball clubs stage a doubleheader here at Soldiers Field. Captain Eddie Loughlin and Drib Braggiotti will be pitching to a Quaker nine that isn't quite as strong at bat as in the field...
Timothy Trebitsch near Budapest in 1879. Going to England at 20, he tacked "Lincoln" on his name, became a Lutheran missionary, then an Anglican curate, then a Quaker. As secretary to a cocoa manufacturer he turned to politics, got elected an M. P. A censor during the War, Trebitsch-Lincoln proudly recounts that he was a spy for both sides. But when England tried and convicted him it was for forgery. In 1920 he was again a censor, this time in Berlin where he said he helped General Ludendorff in the Kapp putsch. Harried from nation to nation and everywhere...
...VALIANT WIFE-Margaret Wilson -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) How a U. S. privateer captain landed in Dartmoor Prison in 1812, and how his Quaker wife got him out; supposedly founded on fact. Romantic but not first-rate...