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...sisters. Since then he has been the only male member of his family although he has married twice (his first wife died in 1901) and has three married daughters. Before he was 24 he had worked his way through college and law school, taught school for seven months near Walla Walla, Washington Territory, and returned from the far frontier to Nebraska. There he was shortly made prosecuting attorney, served three terms, then two terms as district judge...
This remarkable young man turned up in the East in 1922 on the brake rods of a transcontinental freight train. Son of a poverty-plagued Presbyterian minister, he odd-jobbed his way through Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., washing his own clothes, living at times in a tent. Burning for a big university degree, he arrived at Columbia Law School with 6? in his pocket. Before he graduated high in his Class of 1925 he had written a legal text book for a correspondence course. In his last year he taught three courses on the side...
...suit, brown tie and rimless octagonal spectacles was seen sprinting for dear life across the campus of Northeastern Oklahoma State Teachers College at Tahlequah. Daniel Shaw (born Hing Sieu) had traveled all the way from Hongkong in 1931 to study in the U. S., had wandered through colleges in Walla Walla, Wash.. San Francisco, Lynn, Mass., Cicero, Ill. and Lexington, Ky., trying to make up his mind whether to be a missionary or a diplomat. Finally he ended up in Tahlequah to study American Indian lore. Now he was learning it first hand. On his heels loped a husky...
...degrees went to Professor Rogers, who several years ago horrified local circles by advocating the young business man to marry the boss's daughter, and to be a snob. Acknowledging the award, Mr. Rogers said: "I want to say first of all a few words to my mother in Walla Walla. I got fouled in the second round and he refuses to give me a return bout." Another touch of humor which the reunioning classes have loft for reminiscence next year was Joseph Seabury's comment the other night to 1904 that he had been reading the report...
...promptly started afresh with Tom Huston System, merchandisers of "Julep Gums." Having no capital with which to start a gum factory, he arranged to have his product made under contract by Walla-Walla Chewing Gum Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. Almost before he knew what had happened Tom Huston found himself forced in under the Chewing Gum Manufacturers' Code which contains this clause: "No member of the Industry shall guarantee the sale of his product by the purchaser thereof...