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Democratic. Since the Civil War, this Party has ridden to success only four times-twice with Grover Cleveland, twice with Woodrow Wilson. The rest of the time, largely under the tutelage of William Jennings Bryan, its presidential record has been inglorious. Indeed, even when Mr. Bryan has not piloted the donkey himself, he has usually ridden behind the jockey. Numbers of Democrats say his riding has made the donkey lame...
...Walter B. James as a life trustee of Columbia University to succeed Judge Robert S. Lovett, Chairman of the Board of the Union Pacific R. R. (resigned because of ill health), turned attention to the list of life trustees of the largest university in the world: William B. Persons (civil engineer), Chairman; Nicholas M. Butler (Columbia President) ; Marcellus H. Dodge (firearms) ; the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning (New York Bishop) ; Willard V. King (banks) ; Stephen Baker (banks) ; Frederic R. Coudert (lawyer) ; Newcomb Carlton (telegraphs) ; John G. Milburn (lawyer) ; Joseph P. Grace (banks, ships, merchandise) ; Alfred E. Marling (realty) ; Albert...
Otto Rothfeld of the Indian Civil Service arrived in Manhattan allegedly to lecture before U. S. Universities...
Fighting in the Chinese civil war, which has disrupted the North for the past few months (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.) was ended. Out of chaos there began to emerge a semblance of order, but real peace seemed a mere illusion...
...style is vivid, almost nervous. The first chapter is the narration of a juryman in a case involving a suit for civil damages by the widow of a famed banker killed by a young lawyer, who used his beautiful wife to further his professional ambitions, only to find that she had been seduced by the famed banker; and who thereupon killed the trespasser and invoked the unwritten law. A note at the end of the chapter states that the facts were for the most part imaginary...