Word: woollen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another business man goeth into politics-Evans Woollen, Indianapolis Bank President-a man to whom President Wilson offered a place on the Federal Reserve Board; who is Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the American Bankers' Association; who is or has been chairman, president or director of a railway, a life insurance company, any number of charitable and welfare associations, a college, an historical society, an art association, a fuel administration and memorials ranging from Benjamin Harrison to James Whitcomb Riley. He is besides a Democrat, and once ran for Congress-in 1896 on the Gold Democratic ticket...
...Evans Woollen has a reputation for counting ten before he speaks. When he cried "bourbon" to the banker it was received more as an indictment than as a figure of speech...
Indiana "Hoosiers" known to every proverbial schoolboy include Authors Tarkington, Nicholson, Ade; Politicians Marshall, Beveridge, Ralston, New, Hays, Watson. But when the banker thinks of Indiana he thinks of Evans Woollen, a banker whose fortune is moderate, whose perspicacity unsurpassed. Friend of authors and confidant of politicians, Mr. Woollen is an expert in Midland* diagnosis...
...father was a rich woollen merchant, but owing to a certain youthful folly with a girl of fifteen I was sent abroad. He allowed me £400 a year and on his death that was increased to £600. . . ." (Humanist answered: " My opinion is that £600 a year is exactly £600 a year too much...