Word: vallandigham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philip Nolan was a shady horse dealer from Louisiana who was shot in 1801 by the Spaniards he had cheated. Edward Everett Hale was a Boston minister who helped whip up Union sentiment during the Civil War. When politicians like Clement Vallandigham of Ohio began to recommend separatism, Dr. Hale wrote The Man Without a Country as an object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest...
...became its most outspoken critic in 1929 for failing to hold clown inflation, and, last year, its historian. Typical of many a eulogy last week was Owen D. Young's: "Commercial banking, both at home and abroad, had no leader of greater skill or understanding." Died. William Vallandigham Kelley, 70, board chairman of Miehle Printing Press & Manufacturing Co.; of heart disease ; in Chicago. He financed the eastern Asia expedition of the Brothers Roosevelt (Theodore and Kermit), for the Field Museum of Natural History in 1928. Died. Dr. James Gore King McClure, 83, president emeritus of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary...
Married. Hortense Henry, granddaughter of Packer Edward Foster Swift; and Gordon Phelps Kelley, son of William Vallandigham Kelley, board chairman of Miehle Printing Press & Manufacturing Co., onetime (1905-1912) president of American Steel Foundries; in Chicago...
Engaged. Miss Hortense Henry, granddaughter of Packer Edward Foster Swift of Chicago; and Gordon Phelps Kelley, sporting son of William Vallandigham Kelley (1905-12 president of American Steel Foundries, board chairman of Miehle Printing Press...