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Seiior Pueyrredon's action was a Rooseveltian gesture. At one stroke he resigned as head of the Argentine Delegation and as Ambassador to Washington...
...Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting him to the White House for dinner. Later in the year (1906) Roosevelt, looking for a U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, remembered the stream-crosser, appointed Henry Lewis Stimson who, in addition to being Sergeant Stimson of Squadron A, was also Lawyer...
Berry School. Busy Henry Ford found time to make a special trip to Rome, Ga., on visit to Rooseveltian Martha Berry and her school. Less than 25 years ago Miss Berry, Southern gentlewoman, taught Sunday School to "po' whites" of the mountain district in northwest Georgia. From this grew Berry school, unique, appealing. In the mountains of the South were 4,000,000 impoverished, illiterate descendants of sturdy English-Scotch stock. Their ancestors, not wealthy enough to own slaves, did well as farmers while the original fertility of soil remained. Ignorant of modern refertilization, they grew so poor...
...famous Rooseveltian humor was at work even in his performance of his official duties. At the opening of the Spanish war, many seaside cities became frightened and asked for naval protection. One city was so active in its demands that the Secretary dug up, almost literally, one of the old monitors, leaky and water-logged, and had it towed to the harbor in question. Here the old tub remained, in momentary danger of sinking but the citizens were content...
...cope with the German invasion, the famed Union Sacree was formed with the Rooseveltian M. Rene Viviani as Premier (Aug. 26, 1914). It was this government which removed to Bordeaux (Sept. 2, 1914) when the German advance was at its height. The second Wartime Union Sacree was formed with M. Briand as Premier...