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...second). I knew him rather well and never heard that he "ate upside down." He had a flair for writing about the family, much of what he had to say being incorporated in a book on the Roeblings published two years ago by the University Press of Princeton, Hamilton Schuyler, author. His brother, Ferdinand, was never president of the Roebling Co., but treasurer, and was the smartest of all in a business way, although he had his full share of weaknesses, one of which was to quarrel with me frequently. However, in the 37 years I have been...
...Colorado, Alva Blanchard Adams. Pueblo banker, onetime (1923-24) Senator, and nephew of the present Governor, nosed out John T. Barnett, wealthy Denver oilman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination, vice Senator Charles Winfield Waterman, deceased. Attorney Karl Cortlandt Schuyler of Denver easily won the Republican nomination. The Democratic primary vote rose from 47.000 in 1930 to 122,000 whereas the Republican primary vote declined from...
...found presiding over the House more strenuous and tiring than he had expected. According to his friends, he took the Vice-Presidential nomination in the hope of shifting to the comparatively easy job of ruling the unruly Senate. If elected, he will be the second man (first: Schuyler Colfax) in U. S. history who has presided over both the branches of Congress...
...Saturday Evening Post's editor, was alternate for sick Boss William S. Vare of Philadelphia, "hero" of the 1928 nomination of Herbert Hoover; Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, sister-in-law of Michigan's football coach, directed the women's division of the national committee; Sarah Schuyler Butler was a New York delegate with her father Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler; even Ruth Hanna McCormick, born to politics, came as the bride of onetime Congressman Albert Gallatin Simms of New Mexico. Mesdames F. Trubee Davison, Walter Evans Edge, James Wadsworth, Bertrand Hollis Snell chiefly came to have...
Reproductions are shown of portraits by Trumball and Peale, the originals of which hang in Memorial Hall. Among the collection of documents are letters to Colonel Putnam, General Schuyler, and General Lincoln, together with miscellaneous notes dated from...