Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Seven Ages of Washington," by O. Wister...
...many years Gen. Woodford has been prominent in the political and military affairs of the country. In 1857 he was messenger of the New York electoral college which conveyed to Washington the vote for Abraham Lincoln as president. In the Civil War he became brevet-brigadier-general of volunteers and was first military governor of Charleston, S. C. After the war, Gen. Woodford resumed the practice of law, and in 1867 was elected lieutenant-governor of New York He was president of the electoral college that voted for U. S. Grant as president. In 1873 he was a member...
...next speaker, Mr. John C. Cobb, president of the Boston Associated Board of Trade, and manager of the Taft campaign in Massachusetts, told how the campaign was progressing in Massachusetts. From his recent trip to Washington, he said that no candidates are mentioned there, and that there are only two parties, drawn on sharp party lines: the administrative, who are for Taft, and the reactionary allies who are for no particular candidate but for the defeat of Taft. In New England the reactionaries are endeavoring to defeat Taft by having the delegates go to Chicago uninstructed, and the only...
...with the commercial interests of the country, and with that view invited delegates in December last from the leading commercial and trade organizations of the principal cities, with a view, not of creating a new national board of trade, but a small delegated body with a permanent seat in Washington, which would represent the entire commercial and trade interests of the country, and would not only co-operate, but be constantly in touch, with it and other departments in promoting the best interests of commerce at home and abroad. The governments of our leading commercial rivals have such co-operation...
...read by various delegates, followed by discussion. In the evening a dinner will be held at the University Club, where Ambassador Choate, Mayor McClellan and other distinguished guests will speak. After the dinner arrangements have been made for all who care to, to take the midnight express to Washington, where interviews have been arranged with President Roosevelt, Secretary Strauss, Vice-president Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon and others, and a trip will be taken to the chambers of the Senate and House of Representatives, where guides will explain the proceedings of these bodies...