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...ability to box with Muldoon, ride with W. S. Hart and eat anything. Oratory, colorful yet dignified, a pleasing compromise between the stilted phraseology of Webster and the poetic nights of Prentiss. Ethnology, Scotch-English- Irish-German, the united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz. Public Record, after business and farming success, terms as Governor, United States Senator, Cabinet officer, Ambassador and the author of textbooks on world economics. Habits, excellent; a moderate drinker before 1917, but dry as a bone ever since; a fairly regular churchgoer. Family, the same wife...
Semon-he cannot make all the ice cream, so he makes the best. (P. 18.) The united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz...
...morning and evening) of Philadelphia. Last January he reached out to Manhattan and bought the New York Evening Post. In taking control of the Post he took possession of an heirloom. On the list of its editors and owners were Alex ander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, John Bigelow, Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin-great men who had made the Post a landmark of journalism. But these men had passed and the Post was no longer their Post. It was a paper run by a group of wealthy men for the pur pose of satisfying their view of what a newspaper...
...followed as editor by Parke Godwin, who later became his son-in-law. Later John Bigelow took the helm, and after Bryant's death, in 1878, Godwin returned as editor. Three years later Henry Villard, the railroad builder, bought the paper. Under him as editors were Carl Schurz (hero of the German revolution of 1848, and one of those who helped to nominate Lincoln in 1860), and E. L. Godkin (founder of The Nation, and generally admitted to be the ablest literary critic of his time, although his trenchant pen also turned to politics). Godkin's largest reputation...
...Schurz 2G.B...