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...London's biggest department store, landed in Manhattan. Of the Roosevelt Administration, he said: "When businessmen find an experiment does not work, they drop it immediately." Few days later he arrived by airplane at Oshkosh. Amid a wild honking of horns he motored to his birthplace at small Ripon, Wis., had a park named for him, received an L.H.D. from Ripon College. That night, at a banquet during the course of which an overtaxed lighting system thrice broke down, white-thatched Dr. Selfridge delighted Riponese by his vocabulary of U. S. slang...
...West last week Escudero danced in Cleveland, Ripon, Wis., Milwaukee. He will give 55 performances, working his way back East for Christmas, then South and into Mexico...
...instituted, many of them have been delivered by distinguished men. Some of the better known lecturers in the past include the Reverend Henry Van Dyke; Professor George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, emeritus; the Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon; the Right Reverend Charles H. Brent, Bishop of the Philippine Islands, Theodore Roosevelt '80; Wilfred T. Grenfell; the Right Reverend Arthur Cayley Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester; and the Reverend W. R. Matthews, Dean of Kings College, London University...
Another Good assignment: To make speeches for the President. This duty Secretary Good takes most conscientiously. He has traveled far and made ten major speeches since March 4 to such bodies as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Red Cross, the War Mothers, the Republican ''Birthday Party" at Ripon...
...Jackson, Ripon's chief rival for founder's honors, holds its seventy-fifth anniversary celebration next month...