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...send you the photo-static copy of a letter in the research files of Paramount Studio where a great deal of work has been done in preparation for a picture on the subject. [Based on Fulop-Miller's Triumph Over Pain-ED.] It is from Daniel Webster, written Dec. 20, 1851, addressed to Dr. W. T. G. Morton and states: "In reply to your letter of the 17th instant, I would say that having been called upon, on a previous occasion, to examine the question of the discovery of the application of ether in surgical operations I then formed...
...Varn Rarette, Jr. Virginia Seay, Vassar John H. Vaughan Patricia Adams, Wellesley George Waissbord-Solovieff Marguerite Madden, Winsor Morton Waldstein Marie Core Duffy, Vassar Rufus F. Walker Susan Strong, Dover Willard M. Waterous Barbara Phair, Mount Holyoke College George F. Waters Ann Clarke, Beaver Country Day Frank J. Webster Jean Gebhard, Pine Manor John Wingate Weeks, II Sally Cole, North Andover Clifford E. Weihman Louise Brown, New York Joseph D. Welsh Helen Cronin, Milton Frederick G. Whoriskey Marjorie Griggs, Wellesley David Wise, Jr. Charlotte Mendelsohn, Brookline Atwood C. Wolf, Jr. Jayne Stevens, Boston William A. Wolfe Betty Joe Coffey, Smith...
...Washington. D. C., a census taker stumbled into a wooden shack, found a grizzled old man living with eight pet canaries. His name: Daniel Webster. His age: 74. His occupation: carpenter. His collateral ancestor: the late (1782-1852) Senator from Massachusetts...
...corrupt U. S. cities Milwaukee in the early 19005 was one of the most corrupt. In 1916, its disgusted German-immigrant voters quit old-line parties and elected as mayor a tall, lanky, unkempt Irishman-a Socialist. So thorough a job of housecleaning did Daniel Webster Hoan do in Milwaukee that his townsmen re-elected him six times without a break. Under May or Hoan's 24-year administration, Milwaukee became one of the best-run cities in the U. S. Chief carping came from bankers, utility men, real-estate owners protesting that "Uncle Dan," bearing the Socialist label...
...sell 'em." Said Dan Hoan: "I leave my public tasks "with no rancor." Commented the Washington Post: "Time takes its toll even of gratitude. The people of Athens got tired of hearing Aristides called the just and the people of Milwaukee apparently got tired of Daniel Webster Hoan for no better reason. Hoan, the Socialist, had nothing to offer them but a continuation of a satisfactory status...