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...According to Peter Schurman, executive director of MoveOn.org, his web site had signed up more than 140,000 supporters, each of whom agreed to make a phone call to the White House and to both of their state's senators. That alone would put 420,000 calls through D.C. switchboards. There were also a reported 80,000 faxes sent through TrueMajority.org, another member of the Win Without War coalition. Tom Andrews, the national director for Win Without War, estimated that 1 million calls and faxes had been placed by the end of business Wednesday...
Died. Jacob Schurman, 88, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1925-30), longtime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Canadian-born he joined the Cornell faculty at the age of 32 as head of the department of philosophy, became president at 38. On leaves, he headed McKinley's first U.S. Philippine Commission in 1899, was Taft's Minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912. He resigned from Cornell in 1920, was appointed Harding's Minister to China in 1921. As Coolidge's Ambassador to Germany he plumped hard for its rehabilitation...
...downtown Manhattan, the cool, deep haunt of many a millionaire, a surprising disturbance took place even before Mr. Morgenthau went into action. Cards printed in haste but with greatest dignity suddenly announced the disruption of the venerable law firm of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight. This is the firm from which the Chief Justice of the U. S. resigned to mount the high bench in 1930. The present senior partner, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., announced the formation of Hughes, Richards, Hubbard & Ewing. His former partner, the business & tax expert of the old firm, announced under the name of Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey...
...Mary Elizabeth Lowndes, who last week remained as co-headmistress. The first Greenwich plant burned in 1923, an event commemorated in innumerable subsequent fire drills. Altogether Rosemary has educated some 1,800 girls from prosperous families, including Mrs. Robert Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Jacob Gould Schurman's daughter Barbara Rose, Thomas Alexander MelIon's daughter Elizabeth and Lady Thornton, youthful relict of the president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad...
Gunplay punctuated Pekin's trouble.* A .45 bullet whistled through the front window of the house where the female secretary of the company union at the distillery lived, missed her mother, dug into the dining room wall. Mayor Schurman showed reporters rifles resting in six corners of his living room and dining room, said that they belonged to as many guards. "This is a hell of a way to live," complained he. And after his men had picked up two gunmen lurking in front of the Sheriff's office, Chief Donahue growled: "What this town needs...