Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention and got Indiana's Thomas R. Marshall named for Vice President. In 1916 a governor whom he elected, Samuel Ralston, appointed him to the Senate. He was, however, defeated for election by James E. Watson (see page 11). Nonetheless he later elected Ralston to the Senate and in 1924 he was on the point of naming Ralston for the Presidency -after the McAdoo-Smith fight-when Ralston refused...
...manuscript written in English and Latin and bearing the early musical notations for hymns. Other interesting volumes are a prayer book printed in London in 1634, including "Some particular formes of Prayer for the English Colonies and Plantations in New England, Virginia, etc." and a Bible which belonged to Samuel Johnson and contains several chapters in his handwriting. The designs for the illustrations of the latter work are taken from Durer's series of prints entitled. "The Apocalypse." Original impressions of this entire series are also on display...
Then there was a general shaking of hands and a few posings with Mr. Edison standing between his cronies, Motor-Man Henry Ford and Tire-Man Harvey Samuel Firestone, his hands affectionately around their shoulders. Mr. Hoover, sauntering across the street to telephone, saw a group of little girls looking sad because, they thought, they were not permitted to dance at Mr. Edison's party. Mr. Hoover opened Mr. Edison's gate and sent the children in. On Mrs. Edison's ample table was a big green-&-yellow pound cake. This the old gentleman sliced with skill...
William Tatem Tilden II is an amateur again. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, under the friendly presidency of Samuel H. Collom of Philadelphia, voted last week in Boston to remove the bar sinister of professionalism it voted six months ago when Tilden wrote in U. S. newspapers about the matches at Wimbledon, a -tour-nament in which he was playing. The bar was removed once before, to allow Tilden to play in the 1928 Davis Cup matches...
Brother Pierre. A senior and most revered du Pont is Pierre Samuel du Pont?broad, thick chin; gleaming forehead; ready smile. He is a Wet. About six months ago he took leave of absence to join his protégeé, John J. Raskob, in working for the Democratic party. The rest of the du Fonts are Dry and Republican. A polite fissure among the du Fonts and within G. M. C. was apparent while the campaign was raging. Now that it is over, Pierre du Font's interest is in The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...