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...John Harvard statue before University Hall was modeled for Sculptor Daniel Chester French by onetime (1891-93) U. S. Representative Sherman Hoar of the Class of 1882. Last week the Boston press revealed that the vacant lot in Charlestown, Mass., in which John Harvard is supposedly buried is now being used as a dump...
...grand ballroom of Chicago's Hotel Sherman 500 spectators who had paid 50? each for admission watched tensely from behind a railing. In the arena before them four men and one woman sat at desks spaced 15 feet apart, five tense figures crouching over typewriters while their flying fingers danced upon the keyboards. The world's champion typewriting title was at stake...
...unaware that Waters-Pierce Oil Co., from which he borrowed $3,300, was still controlled by the Standard Oil Trust. Exonerated, Texas' Bailey returned to the Senate, resigned in 1913, stayed out of politics until 1920 when he ran unsuccessfully for Governor. He died in a Sherman, Tex. courtroom...
Next morning in Ohio the Landon special stopped at Lima, Ada, Bucyrus, Crestline, Mansfield (which the Republican nominee did not forget "was the home of John Sherman," sponsor of the Anti-trust Law), and Canton ("The home of truly beloved William McKinley"). Crossing into Pennsylvania, the train, now fairly bursting with local bigwigs, ground to a stop at West Middlesex, where in a small frame house Alfred Mossman Landon was born 49 years ago. Out hopped the spry Governor and strode down the cinder platform to the automobile in which he was to ride with rich and handsome Mrs. Worthington...
...Commerce, and Warren C. Platt, publisher of Platt's Oilgram and National Petroleum News.* To oilmen the sole surprise was that the Government had decided to use for the first time in a big case its power to conduct a criminal rather than civil prosecution under the Sherman Act. Late last spring Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings announced that complaints of oil price-fixing had been received, that at President Roosevelt's express request the Department of Justice would investigate. Three months ago a Federal grand jury began sitting in Madison, has since examined more than 100 witnesses...