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...years ago, Judge Sanford gained a good education at the University of Tennessee (1883), at Harvard (1885), at Harvard Law School (1889). Genial, democratic in manner, with a talent for public speaking, he began a law practice that carried throughout his state. From his Yankee father he inherited a stout Republican faith. U.S. Circuit Judge Taft observed his legal ability, marked him as a good man. President Roosevelt brought him to Washington in 1907 as an assistant Attorney General, sent him back to Tennessee the next year as a U.S. District Judge. When in 1922 ill health forced Justice Mahlon...
...Flemington, N. J., Ann Wilson Stout ate a piece of pumpkin pie for breakfast on her 101st birthday. Said she: "I missed my regular morning onion...
...Godfrey of Bouillon took actual command, was first across the walls when they stormed Jerusalem. Other notables: lackadaisical Duke Robert Short Breeches of Normandy, red-haired Bohe-mund, Tancred, "finest sword of the Normans," the first to see Jerusalem; Raymond of Toulouse, Stephen of Meaux, Bishop Adhemar, jovial priest, stout-hearted soldier, Peter the Hermit...
...General's dynastic gesture, in which he copied the procedure by which he had received the Command from his father, the late great General William Booth, met with stout resistance from overwhelming Army factions opposed to the Booth dynasty. Then began the battle of the Booths, which raged for months, in which Booths fought Booths, anti-Booths fought all Booths (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928, et seq.). Ultimately Commissioner Edward John Higgins, International Chief of Staff, anti-Booth, was elected General by the Army's High Council...
Corporation presidents do not usually conceive their companies' advertising campaigns, but no usual president is George Washington Hill of American Tobacco. The Reach for a Lucky idea came to him, he says, when he chanced to see a stout woman eating a sweet while next to her was a slender girl smoking a cigaret. During the height of the anti-sweet controversy he maintained that his campaign was really helping candy sales by focussing so many millions of minds on the subject of candy. Energetic, strong minded, Mr. Hill personally supervises many branches of his business, even to passing...