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...pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease "discriminating" against A. F. of L. unionists, and unless the city council ousted Police Chief Donahue, Mahoney and his men would "tie up Pekin as tight as a drum." The city answered by calling for militia...
Frank Ernest Gannett was born on a farm in upstate New York, peddled papers as a boy, worked his way through Cornell by newshawking in his spare time. After graduation he accompanied the first U. S. Commission to the Philippines as secretary to its president, Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, then Cornell's president later Ambassador to Germany. Back in Ithaca, Frank Gannett was by turns city editor, managing editor and business manager of the Daily News and editor of the Cornell Alumni News...
...comfortable Manhattan studio of Levon West last week assembled Mr. & Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt, Dr. & Mrs. Byron Stookey, Mr. Howard E. Coffin, Mrs. Jacob Gould Schurman, Mrs. Richard C. Bondy, Dr. & Mrs. Philip Childs Potter, Mrs. Eli Whitney Debevoise, and a French poodle named Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen...
...hand, Mr. Curry has snared him into tacit support of Dr. O'Brien; on the other, Mr. Schurman is peppering him as a black deceiver, not to be endured in any of his works and pomps, uninterested in good government or indeed in anything but the governorship. What assault he will suffer at the hands of his real victim, Mr. LaGuardia, remains to be seen, but it is clear that he cannot but emerge from the New York campaign as that most inexcusable of offenders in a democracy, the man of mystery, the friend of none and the suspect...
Heidelberg's "University Hall," classroom building, was built by former U. S. students at the University, dedicated by onetime U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman in 1931. Its tablet, containing many a Jewish name, still stands. Moreover, foreign students, even Jewish ones, are still admissible at Heidelberg since they "cannot enter the German labor market...