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...call your attention to a statement in your issue of Dec. 7 under POLITICAL NOTES-"Il Penseroso," where you say of Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln, "In 1889 President Harrison sent him to London as Am- bassador." If my recollection is correct the first Ambassador sent to a regular diplomatic post of the U. S. abroad was Thomas P. Bayard of my native state of Delaware who was sent to the Court of St. James's by President Cleveland after the latter became President for his second term in 1898. Mr. Bayard had as you know been Cleveland...
...correct figure was 4,404,247 knots in ten months...
...WILLIS: Why, of course the Senator is correct about that. Senators travel upon trains as other citizens do. I submit to any Senator who has been traveling in the past 25 years whether there is any change in the situation. Drunkenness used to be common upon the trains. A score of times I have been spoken to by conductors upon the railroad trains in the State of Ohio, before prohibition went into effect, begging me to do what I could then, as a member of the general assembly and subsequently as a private citizen, to exterminate this traffic because they...
Perhaps Mr. Farrar's diagnosis of the American frame of mind is incorrect; perhaps he does Americans a great injustice; perhaps he credits them with a virtue which they do not deserve. But if his diagnosis he correct, wherefore be sorrowful? Perhaps the beauties of serene contemplation are lost upon Mr. Farrar completely, but certainly be fails to perceive the possibilities of such contemplation in the particular case of the American people. The present American frame of mind is hardly a thing to be admired; but its future is promising. It is not beyond the limits of the possible that...
Sirs: I wish to advise you that your estimate on the University of Pittsburgh football team as it appeared against W. & J., was quite correct in spite of what Mr. John S. Cramer has written...