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...Birthplace. In Oshkosh, where 400 persons left their midmorning work to listen, Willkie first warmed up. For the first time, too, his hearers warmed. He lashed at Tom Dewey, at those who think it "clever to be silent, that it is smart poli tics to manipulate the nomination." In Ripon, birthplace of the Republican party, he put the argument on a scholarly plane, in a speech acclaimed by Columnist Marquis Childs as "one of the vital docu ments in our political history. . . . Our grandchildren may be reading it in history books 50 years from...
...Conservative Party persuaded young Edward Wood to run for Parliament from Ripon, near York. So at 28 he became an M. P. By then he was already well married to Lady Dorothy Onslow, daughter of the Earl of Onslow, one time Governor General of New Zealand...
...Ripon, Wis., a group composed of abolitionists and nationalists met to form the Republican Party, which, though it has elected 13 Presidents, is the only U. S. third party which ever elected even...
Last week, University of Wisconsin's tanbark-floored livestock pavilion at Madison was the scene of a mass meeting which may or may not become retrospectively as important to U. S. history as the convention in Ripon. Into the pavilion swarmed some 5,000 invited guests, for whose benefit its interior had been deodorized, its gallery strung with U. S. and Wisconsin flags and with banners bearing the strange device of a cross within a circle, a new American shibboleth. Ushers were Wisconsin football players wearing red sweaters with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker...
...pert, imaginative magnifico who was born in Ripon, Wis. and cleaned up a cool million in Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., was Harry Gordon Self ridge, 51, when in 1909 he started Self ridge & Co. in London. By impudent American-style promotion it soon became most talked about, one of the most successful of London's department stores, now has annual sales of some $75,000,000. Among the earliest of Harry Selfridge's stunts was an advertisement in the form of an institutional editorial, run daily in the London Times over the by-line "Callisthenes...