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...ranks with Emerson's "The American Scholar" among the greatest orations of its type); Carl Schurz, Charles William Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, Josiah Royce, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The names of the poets include Everett, Emerson, and Holmes; William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Brot Harte, Owen Wister, Barrett Wendell, Robert Frost, Bliss Carman, Alfred Noyes, and Stephen Vincent Benet...
...request was approved by its officials. Simultaneously "Admiral" Gardiner sent out telegraphic summons for the League's Executive Committee to meet in Washington and plan a White House War. Among those thus called to League headquarters were Henry Breckinridge, onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War; James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., onetime Senator from New York; Theodore Douglas Robinson, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Ogden Mills Reid, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Curtiss James, rail tycoon; Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts. Strife with a Republican President would come hard for this...
Committee. Later President Hoover appointed his committee of inquiry: Admiral Hugh Rodman, retired; John Hays Hammond; Eliot Wadsworth, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Undersecretary of State William Richards Castle; Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Although Messrs. Hammond, Wadsworth & Jahncke are Navy Leaguers, they are Administration men. The committee's make-up therefore pointed to a complete victory for President Hoover...
...This consists of the following ships: Leviathan, George Washington, President Roosevelt, President Harding, America, Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader, Importer, Exporter-also two fine vessels abuilding in Camden, N. J. As everyone knows this fleet was spectacularly purchased from the Government in the boom of 1929 by Banker Paul Wadsworth Chapman who proceeded to sell stock to the public on patriotic grounds. But in days when no Atlantic fleet makes any money to speak of, and with Britain's greatest Royal Mail losing millions, the prospects for an American fleet in the New York-Europe run, with the extra...
...Dollar and Roosevelt interests to reach a quick agreement on their bidding for U. S. Lines, that a pact was being made which would provide for harmony in rates and sailings, end the discord between the shippers of the Atlantic and Pacific. Significant was the absence of Paul Wadsworth Chapman of U. S. Lines, apparently no longer a principal figure in the U. S. merchant marine...