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...tender age of 23, or thereabout, Mr. Gilbert became a law clerk in a firm of Manhattan lawyers. Here he remained for nearly three years, lost in the midst of Manhattan's hordes. In 1918, he became a member of the War Loan Staff, did valuable work, received due recognition. In June of 1920, when not yet 28 years of age, he was nominated by President Wilson as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. When the Harding Administration succeeded that of Mr. Wilson, he was reappointed to the assistant secretaryship and in June of the same year, his importance...
...crypt of St. Peter's, a tomb lay covered with flowers. Heavy candles diffused their ethereal light, revealing black-draped and kneeling figures, bent in devout prayer. A slight murmur of subdued voices disturbed the restful silence. Occasionally, the firm voice of a prelate would rise above the murmur as he pronounced a benediction, or sometimes low, sad chants would break the stillness. Close to the tomb were two elderly sisters of the dead, absorbed in reciting the Ave Maria, as they tremblingly counted their beads. All that long day, figures shuffled in and shuffled out of the crypt...
...Jurists present: Prof. James Brown Scott, President of the American Society of International Law; Prof. Philip Marshall Brown, of Princeton University; Frederick R. Coudert, senior partner of the law firm of Coudert Bros., author of Certainty and Justice, and Government delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, held at St. Louis...
Although fair in its news, the Times is yet editorially a partisan-not a narrow partisan, to be sure, but one that is forthright and firm in its faith. Editorially, the Times is as strong a pro-Davis paper as there is in the country. The record of its pro-Davis activities does not begin with the present campaign-it began long...
Yachtsmen were somewhat surprised at the absence of a Herreshoff-designed boat among those picked. The Herreshoffs of Bristol, R. L, are descended from an ancient line of New England boatbuilders. John B. (died 1915) blind from boyhood, was a great ship-designer and head of the firm, but it was Captain "Nat" Herreshoff (brother of John) who made the name famous. He invented a cata maran that sailed 21 m.p.h. He also introduced the "fin" keel for racing sloops, now used the world over...