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...Henry George and became Cleveland's foremost Mayor (1901-09). George Jones, co-founder of the New York Times in 1851, is distinguished among Joneses and newspaper publishers by reason of having refused an offer of $5,000,000 to abandon his crusade against Tammany Boss William Marcy Tweed...
Devotees who have visited the warm musty sanctum on Baker Street, who have seen thin, ascetic fingers cure Quietly around an hypodermic who hart watched a spare figure draped unhand somely in tweed and mufflers despots in the swirl of a London fog, in short all who know Hoimes as Doyle conceived him, will turn from this latest atrocity with grim sentiments...
...Lord Provost of Edinburgh led a procession from St. Giles's Cathedral to the Scott Monument in Princes Street. In Waverley Market, school children performed a masque based upon the Waverley Novels. Miss Patricia Scott, great-great-great-granddaughter, unveiled a memorial in Galashiels, across the River Tweed from Abbotsford. Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a speech extolling Scott's "shining immortality." From Galashiels, whither went many a Scottish pilgrim, was broadcast a musical version of the Lay of the Last Minstrel. In Dryburgh Abbey there were ceremonies commemorating Scott's burial there...
...rumored she had bought), and whither she went after demanding an increase of her $6,500 per week salary, came news that Greta Garbo had a cold. Also came news pictures snapped of her unawares in a Stock holm cinema theatre. They showed her dressed in the shapeless tweed suit which she had worn on her voyage from the U. S., long hair streaming stringily...
...wide, calm face. This executive hearing was a climax to his 14 months work as counsel for the legislative committee investigating graft and corruption in Tammany's city. When told that the Mayor got a boisterous public welcome on his arrival, Counsel Seabury remarked: "So did Tweed." Not ten minutes after the hearing began Governor Roosevelt, who perhaps had even more at stake politically than the Mayor, demonstrated his complete command of the situation. Mayor Walker had brought along as his counsel blue-eyed, white-haired John J. Curtin, Brooklyn attorney, close friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith...