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Senator George Wharton Pepper is one of 50 Pennsylvanian laymen of the Episcopal Church who have documented themselves as endorsing the Apostles' and Nicene creeds. Their action is directed against spiritual radicals who, say they, "disseminate doctrines which tend to unsettle the minds of some of our people...
...eight more estates, of which three were situated on the shore of Lake Mahkeenac, Lenox. One of these, owned by Mrs. Carlos de Heredie, is of the Italian Renaissance style, constructed with colored brick and rarified ironwork. Another, that of Mrs. Albert R. Shattuck, was planned by Mrs. Edith Wharton, a well-known amateur landscape architect, Mr. Harris Fahnestock's estate in Lenox, the last to be observed, was studied chiefly because of its many gardens and fountains...
...Calvin Coolidge, President of the U. S., was first of the monarchs of the forest to tremble last week before the insidious chill of the approaching season. The Senators from Pennsylvania, George Wharton Pepper and David A. Reed, called at the White House. Mr. Pepper is sometimes referred to as " the best lawyer in the Senate "; Mr. Reed, although young, is rated as an able lawyer. On leaving the President, they "put their legal heads together and devised the following unincriminating statement...
...many, George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania appears to be the most able lawyer in the Senate. Mr. Pepper has been one of the most noted practitioners at the Philadelphia Bar. He served as Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania from 1893 till 1910. In 1915 he was the Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale. His appellate arguments are surpassed by those of nobody at the entire American Bar. He is in a class with men like John W. Davis, Louis Marshall, William D. Guthrie. He brings to the Senate, in addition to a profound knowledge...
...Author. Edith Wharton (nee Jones) is a New Yorker by birth and a cosmopolitan by inclination. She was born in 1862 and has been in the literary limelight for almost 25 years (her first book, The Greater Inclination, was published in 1899). Most of her novels, which include The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, deal with the so-called upper classes at home or abroad, but her masterpiece, Ethan Frome, is a grim little tragedy of character laid in a New England village. For a number of years she has resided in France...