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...President is undertaking the organization of his Alaskan " vaca-tion." He, with Secretary of the Interior Work, Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, must in three weeks master the problems of the Territory enough to undertake a constructive program in the Fall. Alaska is now administered by 35 departments and bureaus of the Government. The problems to be mastered include centralization of the Government, colonization, mineral survey, railway building, road building, laws governing fishing, hunting and protection of the seals, removing dangers to navigation, building a territorial capitol...
...fearless, and brilliant in attack on the floor of the House. The tariff was his home territory and he knew it like the proverbial book. He made his name as a Democrat by attacking the free lumber plank in the Democratic platform of 1908. He strengthened his posi-tion in the following year by his attack on "Cannonism" and the tariff...
...bill will provide for the exten-tion of the vote to women in municipal elections, proportionate representation, abolition of nearly all previous restrictions on eligibility...
Died. Horace M. Kilborn, 57, retired senior Vice President of the National City Bank of New York, of heart disease in Manhattan. He rose from a bank runner to a posi-tion in which he was one of the leading bankers in the group who brought relief to the money market in 1907. In one of the Liberty Loan campaigns he was said to have raised $10,000,000 in 36 hours...
...would account for what he said only to himself. But it strikes a responsive chord in many hearts in America, who look for individual breadth of mind to save the world. The German prelate joins himself in sentiment with the English nurse Cavell, who said before her execution tion : " Patriotism is not enough...