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...John Edgar Hoover, born in the District of Columbia, was graduated from George Washington Law School; a member of the District bar, he was called upon seven years ago, when only 23, to be a special assistant to the Attorney General. That was in the day of a Democratic Administration. Working under Attorney General Palmer, young Hoover handled the legal arrangements of the cases by which the Government secured the deportation of Emma Goldman, of Alexander Berkman, of Ludwig Martens (the "Ambassador" of Soviet Russia...
...Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Hoover was made Acting Director. Attorney General Stone, casting about for a new Director, decided that he preferred a man trained in the Government service rather than one of the great private sleuths who have usually been given the place. So, last week, John Edgar Hoover was sworn in, given...
...Edgar P. Hill of Philadelphia lamented modern modes in U. S. education. Said he: "We are missing the mark. We are on a sort of merry-go-round. We are in motion and there is plenty of excitement and jazz music, but we are getting nowhere...
...Secretary of Labor, not the Assistant Secretary of War, but the Davis whose given names are Norman Hezekiah, descendant of Snead Davis, a Revolutionary soldier, and who was Under Secretary of State in the Wilson Ad- ministration?this Mr. Davis announced that the $25,000 had been awarded to Edgar Algernon Robert, first Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (Lord Robert Cecil), third son of the third and greatest Marquis of Salisbury...
Incomparably the most popular of contemporary composers, Puccini was born at Lucca, Italy, 1858. His father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather had all composed music. He attracted attention when his one-act opera Le Villi was successfully performed at La Scala, Milan. His next work, Edgar, was a failure; but he won note with Manon Lescaut, and international fame with La Bohème. Tosca and Madame Butterfly followed. The Girl of the Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short...