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...McAdoo out of the race? From his home in Los Angeles he assailed the "continued effort to make my private law practice a political issue." He admitted that his firm, which received $100,000 for services to Mr. Doheny in regard to Mexican oil interests, would have received $1,000,000 all told if its efforts had been successful in getting what Mr. Doheny wanted. He also declared...
...maintain in these sad days the firm belief that the objective of the trial will show that everything which my dear comrade and helper did was dictated solely by glowing unselfish love for the Fatherland-and I assume the same motives inspire his present opponents, for I strive to be just to all sides...
...went to the War via Cornell and Columbia. He served in the french Ambulance, then in the Army He returned to America) wrote Several novels, which he never Offered for publication, married into a Conservative New York family, works at present in a responsible post in a prominent publishing firm. Yet to talk with him means that you at once sense the restlessness, the uncertainty, the strained nerves of the War generation...
...awarded to John William Lieb, operating Vice President of the New York Edison Co., who has made New York the model light and power city of the world. Over 30 years ago, when Lieb was just out of Stevens Tech, he got a job with Thomas A. Edison. The firm had a contract to build a great electrical plant in Italy. "Send Lieb," said Edison. He was only 22, but he did the job and stayed in charge of the Italian company for 12 years. Lieb's story, together with those of the 13 previous recipients of the Edison Medal...
Albert B. Fall: "Arrived at El Paso, Texas, I went to the home of my son-in-law, a collector of customs, where Mrs. Fall was lying ill. Reporters remarked that I 'walked with a firm step...