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...London, to the Lord Chief Justice, and Prime Minister Disraeli, but all are shown in positions neither dignified nor flattering. They were drawn for "Vanity Fair" by two cartoonists who called themselves "Ape" and "Spy." Proudly looking down on this "rogue's gallery" are oil portraits of Daniel Webster, of the class of 1804, John Marshall, Rufus Choate, of the class of 1845, and James Bradley Thayer, of the class of 1852, professor of Law from...
...eight within two weeks as a start towards settling some ancient scores. From all he has been able to gather from acquaintances who ought to know. Dartmouth is situated on the top of a sky jump somewhere near the Canadian border and was once patronized by one of the Webster boys. But with a few simple rules, such as being careful not to ask if green ties are in honor of St. Patrick and a resolution to avoids embarrassing situations by looking only at the cheer leaders nearest him, the Vagabond hopes to report in good order for Monday...
...season progresses encomia will accrue to the Club's directors, but especially to Clifford Webster Barnes, founder of the club, onetime (1900-1905) Illinois College president, onetime (1918) Red Cross worker, capitalist, altruist, di vine. At Yale, Student Barnes, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., made his first efforts to bring sectarians together. Later, in Paris, Student Barnes assembled a small interdenominational group. Luncheon friends among Chicago business men he persuaded to become trustees of the original Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the beginning and continued existence of the club have been due to his efforts. Looked upon...
Power. Charles Augustus Stone, head of Stone & Webster and Blodget (engineers, financiers) last week added a great block to his interstate power structure. He is chairman of the Engineers Public Service Co., a holding company for power manufacturers of the Middle West, Southwest, South and Middle Atlantic States. In the Northwest is the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., which supplies motive power to the Great Northern Railway. Last week Mr. Stone got control of Puget Sound and joined it to his Engineers Public Service Co., whose total assets thereby became...
Cigars. David A. Schulte, now commonly considered the dominant force in United Cigar Stores and its allied businesses (including his own Schulte Retail Stores), is consolidating five cigar manufacturing companies as the Webster-Eisenlohr Co. Cigar making capacity of the merger is 700,000,000 a year. Mr. Schulte will be president, United Cigar's Vice President W. T. Posey chairman. Last week both were elected to correlative positions with the Union Tobacco Co., a tobacco manufacturing subsidiary of the United Cigar-Schulte merchandising-financial group...