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Dutchess County, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in 1882, is very much "upstate," just south of Albany. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a fifth cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt and he married Theodore Roosevelt's niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He is, conspicuously, the man that Theodore Roosevelt the younger never became. Tall, with a chiselled countenance, blue eyes, curling light hair, he has exercised a vigorous public spirit ever since, as editor of the Harvard Crimson, he demanded and demanded and obtained fire escapes for Harvard's dormitories. He went into the New York Senate in 1910 after practicing...
Governor Byrd's widest claim to fame is his brotherhood with Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed flyer over far poles. Richmond's politico-social renaissance received scarcely a decimal fraction of the nationa publicity attending Commander Byrd': preparations to depart for the South Pole from Los Angeles?preparations which obliged the unsocial-seeming explorer to absent himself from a fete in his honor...
...heroine of his play is a complexed lady who, fatigued by her husband, forms a fixation for a businessman whom she had disregarded until he departed from France for the Argentine. During his absence, she worships him and lives at war with her neighbours; when he returns from South America, she is compelled, by comparing her mental image with reality, to curtail her adoration, and to live, more than ever, at war with life...
Power. Charles Augustus Stone, head of Stone & Webster and Blodget (engineers, financiers) last week added a great block to his interstate power structure. He is chairman of the Engineers Public Service Co., a holding company for power manufacturers of the Middle West, Southwest, South and Middle Atlantic States. In the Northwest is the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., which supplies motive power to the Great Northern Railway. Last week Mr. Stone got control of Puget Sound and joined it to his Engineers Public Service Co., whose total assets thereby became...
...South Dakota--Student may register by proving himself an elector through his own affidavit or through the sworn affidavit of some elector whose name has already been placed upon the registry list...