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Jonathan Edwards College, for the famed Presbyterian theologian (1703-58). Graduated from Yale at 17, Edwards preached dogmatically, saved many a soul, wrote many a book. In 1757 he succeeded his son-in-law Aaron Burr (father of Traitor Aaron Burr) as president of Princeton University, died of smallpox inoculation in the following year. Princeton also reveres him, has an Edwards Street, an Edwards Hall...
...July 1, 1927 Col. Henry Aaron Guinzburg, Jewish rubber manufacturer and philanthropist, gave his son Harold a $71,368 house as a wedding present. On Nov. 16, 1928 Col. Guinzburg died. The Government, contending that the gift was made in expectation of death to evade the inheritance tax, assessed the Guinzburg estate an extra $2,000. Col. Guinzburg's lawyer son-in-law James Marshall, son of the late great Louis Marshall, brought what the U. S. accepted as a test suit...
Usually classified as a modernist, Conductor Reiner gave in his first Stadium concert a program mostly classical. However, he told interviewers of an interest in such modern Americans as John Alden Carpenter, Aaron Copland, Roger H. Sessions and George Gershwin, who, he says, is "the only U. S. composer to have a popular following in Europe." And in his fourth concert, Conductor Reiner-who once studied for the Hungarian bar-gave a program composed of the works of four living musicians (Stravinsky, Kodaly, Ravel, Henry Hadley), two dead within the century (Debussy, Goldmark...
Custom but no law requires an ex-Secretary's portrait to hang in his old department. Likeliest way to remove an undesirable would be by resolution of Congress. No picture of Harry Micajah Daugherty, discredited Attorney General, nor of Aaron Burr, unpopular U. S. Vice President, hangs officially in Washington. But in the Capitol lobby still hangs Schuyler Colfax, U. S. Vice President (1869-73) who was implicated but not convicted in the Credit Mobilier scandal...
...Torrington, Conn., etc., etc. Then newshawks undertook to find out who really had the shortest name in the land. Baltimoreans dug up the name Tau-chun I, onetime Chinese medical student there, but they had forgotten that in China surnames come first. Winner last week seemed to be Aaron A, first name in the Chicago city directory...