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...Democratic National Committee (1928), has ten times won the gentleman farmers' exhibit of fruit, vegetables and flowers at the Stockbridge, Mass. Grange Fair. Last week his first public office sought him. To his swank Stockbridge home trooped several hundred neighbors headed by Harvard Instructor William Ellery Sedgwick, nephew of venerable Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly. Tumbling their words excitedly together, they asked 58-year-old Novelist Johnson to become a candidate for the Democratic Congressional nomination from the First Massachusetts District...
Having thus satisfied their curiosity, the correspondents explored the comfortable Potomac, discovered a small elevator concealed in the smokestack. This device was installed on short order by Sedgwick Machine Works of Poughkeepsie so that the President can go below decks if he wishes. Then the press flew back to Miami taking with them Uncle Frederick A. Delano and leaving the President to voyage to the fishing grounds recommended by Sir Bede...
Harvard's President James Bryant Conant has twice refused to accept scholarships from Alumnus Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, Dictator Hitler's pressagent and musical solace. But last week President Conant wrote to Rector Groh: "The President and Fellows, in accepting the invitation of the University of Heidelberg, recognize the ancient ties by which the universities of the world are united and which are independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time...
...inspection of Hon. Mr. Justice Swift. After scrutinizing it with care, His Lordship ventured, "It is apparently an American publication." Subject of the trial was a libel suit against Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express by intuitive Adolf Hitler's magnetic friend Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. The gigantic Nazi Doktor is given to moments of extreme nervous excitement which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle of smelling salts. From TIME the Daily Express had picked up and reprinted the fact that Putzy...
...Groton celebrated its 25th anniversary. Among such alumni as Joseph Clark Grew, Bronson Cutting, Robert Rutherford McCormick, Payne Whitney, George & Richard Whitney, W. Averell Harriman, Warren Delano Robbins, Ellery Sedgwick and Percy Haughton, the favorite subject of speculation was "who will succeed the Rector?" Last year the school was 50 years old. Its alumni had grown to include Arthur Train, Sumner Welles, E. Roland Harriman, F. Trubee Davison, Dean Acheson, Junius S. & Henry S. Morgan, Oliver LaFarge. Again the favorite subject of speculation was "who will succeed the Rector...