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...without public honor in her own country, Mrs. Reid was chosen, along with Elihu Root, a presidential elector-at-large in 1924. Staunch Republican, she was glad to cast her honorary vote for Calvin Coolidge. Last year she was appointed to the Port of New York's survey to devise improvements in customs inspection. To her the State Department turned, last month, in search of shelter for its royal guests from Siam...
...years later this association led to his becoming general counsel of Bank of Italy and in 1924 he was made president and chairman of that multi-branched institution. He has been twice decorated by the King of Italy for his work among Italian immigrants. He is a staunch advocate of bigger, stronger, fewer banks. At Los Gatos, Calif., he is president of a golf club, but never has swung a club himself. At home he raises berries and fruit. Mr. Bacigalupi's excitability and sense of humor were both illustrated a dozen years ago in Oroville, Calif. Insulted...
...32nd Street: The wind sniffed like a happy cat At scuttling beetle-people, The sunshine would have roused a flat To try and be a steeple. My breakfast in me warm and staunch, Your letter in my pocket, The world's a coon that's climbed a branch And I am David Crockett...
...rejoiced that despite great difficulties, her group collected £9,500 (some $46,000). The Cape Town city council permitted other organizations to make street campaigns simultaneously. Lamented Mrs. Trevelyan: "The public still have a very hazy idea of what a real community chest can be ... [only] a few staunch men have supported...
...staunch men" support every community chest. Cleveland, which raised $4,667,224 for its chest and $751,300 additional for unemployment relief, has its Samuel Livingston Mather, richest citizen. He gave $186,000. His step-brother William Gwinn Mather gave...