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...back in his chair and continued. "You know Washington was the wealthiest man in America in his day. He was a shrewd business man, an analytic bookkeeper, and the most consistent buyer of real estate in the country. During the Revolutionary War, when his brother-in-law. Fielding Lewis, went bankrupt making guns for the Continental Army, Washington stayed prosperous because of the rise in the value of the land he had previously purchased. He kept all his business records and we possess most of them today...
Professor Hart explained that he went to Washington last week to attend a meeting of the United States Commission for the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington, of which he is one of the seven presidential commissioners. While there he was invited by Henry Woodhouse, a collector of Washington materials, to accompany him to Mt. Vernon where the old trunk was at the home of one of Betty Lewis's descendants. On the way back to Washington Porfessor Hart looked at one of the packages and found in it about 90 memorandums by Washing...
...Memphis, Tenn., last week, went 1,500 dyers and cleaners, delegates to the twenty-second annual convention of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners of the U. S. & Canada. To them spoke Frank A. Weller, Sharon. Pa., president of the association. Irate, President Weller talked chiefly of racketeers, recommended that the association go on record as being "unalterably opposed" to racketeering (see Letters), and refuse association membership to any dyer and cleaner known to have racketeering connections. Dyers and cleaners feel that unjust, unfavorable comment on racketeers has gravely injured the dyeing and cleaning industry...
Henry Worth (Hank) Thornton was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1871, went to St. Paul's, then to the University of Pennsylvania. At St. Paul's he met James McCrea, whose father was then president of the Pennsylvania railroad. At Pennsylvania, Student Thornton won fame as a line-plunger, helped Penn beat Princeton (1892) and after graduating became football coach at Vanderbilt. He then (1894) entered the Pennsylvania Railroad offices as a draftsman, remained to become (1911) superintendent of the Long Island Railroad...
Possibly the dress and the behavior of professors and instructors should have been examined also. There used to be professors who went about crumpled and ungartered. There were even professors known to drink whiskey at $2 a gallon. Will it be believed that the Dean of Harvard College dissociates it and himself from this great survey? He says it has no meaning and that he won't have anything to do with it. The Dean of George Washington is a graduate of Harvard. The ungenial mother snubs her own son. What is infinitely worse, she kicks against an irresistible...