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...Hicks resigned from his private banking firm. In 1914, he was elected to Congress from New York State by 4 votes. Thereafter, he was thrice reelected, was, meanwhile, declared by the National Security League to be 100% American...
Some one has to be Mayor of Herrin, Ill. Elections are due next week. It is desirable that there should be more than one candidate. So Marshall McCormack, head of the grocery firm of Marshall McCormack & Bros., put himself forward in opposition to the regular Ku Klux Klan Kandidate. Mr. McCormack is himself a Klansman, is running on a joint Klan-Klanless ticket, is bitterly opposed by the Klan-or-nothing regulars. A year ago, some enemy set fire to his store; the flames were...
Dillon, head of the banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co., does not believe in letting the grass grow under his feet. Within a week after he had purchased the Dodge Brothers...
Died. Fritz Baedeker, 81, President of the firm of Karl Baedeker, publishers of famed tourists' guidebooks; in Leipzig, Germany. At 15, he succeeded his father as head of the firm, brought out English editions of guidebooks printed in German and French, added books until he had covered nearly every country of the civilized world, made his publications nigh indispensable to travelers...
Charles Allerton Coolidge Jr. '17 of Boston, with the law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden and Perkins. He was second marshal of his class at its graduation. From 1917 to 1919 he was a Captain of Infantry, Machine Guns, with the Army in France...