Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hollywood, Calif., October 26--Bernard Vorhaus '25, the University's youngest scenario writer, whose first moving picture, "Sunlight", has met with favorable critical comment, will visit Cambridge soon. Vorhaus entered the University in 1921, and completed his course in three years with honors in English. He was then...
Harlan Fiske Stone, latest addition (1925) to the Supreme Court, is its youngest, biggest, strapping-strongest member. He is but 55, He was graduated by Amherst College the year before Calvin Coolidge, in 1894. For 14 years (1910-24) he was Columbia University's Dean of Law and spent eleven months, between quitting that post and taking his present one, at being U. S. Attorney General. There was a flurry before Mr. Associate Justice Stone's confirmation by the Senate over the fact that he once represented J. P. Morgan & Co., and a storm over the fact that...
Character. Baron von Maltzan, beside being one of the youngest Germans to attain ambassadorial rank, was also one of Germany's ablest diplomats. In personal appearance he was a typical German aristocrat, medium height, portly but not adipose, with an attractive genial face and sharp eyes. Of all his traits, perhaps his devotion to his family was the most marked. He was to be seen everywhere not only with his wife, but with his daughter, Edith, to whom he was warmly attached. In his work he was unusually tactful, firm and independent. His genius for diplomacy, his skill...
Married. Louise Mitchell, youngest daughter of Banker John J. Mitchell (Illinois Merchants Trust Co.), to one John Payne Kellogg; at Lake Geneva, near Chicago. The ceremony was performed in what was the Ceylonese exhibition room at the Chicago World's Fair...
...with corrupt office-getting; while the Mayor of Chicago roamed the Pacific Coast trying to play a part in national politics; while the Mayor of Los Angeles bestirred himself to defeat a movement for his recall; while this mayor stayed at home and that mayor went to market, the youngest and spriest mayor of them all, James John Walker of New York, brought to a climax in Paris an American legend of Insouciance Abroad...