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Biltmore originally covered 125,000 acres of North Carolina land, has been reduced by turning one section into a forest reservation, another into a village, to 11,500 acres. To house the 2,000 people employed on the estate, Paternalist Vanderbilt built a model village in the English Cheshire style, now a suburb of Asheville. Biltmore's first Chief Forester was Gifford Pinchot, later (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Here until his death in 1914 lived George Washington Vanderbilt, studying the dialects of the American Indian in his ornate library, helping his North Carolina tenants with their farming, issuing...
...Frazier nor Miss Steck, in the leading roles, possesses a voice of such quality as these, their singing is competent, and their duet "Come Dreams So Bright" is one of the perennial hits. In the best of the comedy songs, "The Tinkers' Song", Mr. Danforth and his disguised foresters hammer, pantomime, and whistle with considerable versatility and enthusiasm. Fully half of the musical numbers are sung by the full company, and so reach a volume befitting the atmosphere of the outlaw group. Scenery, costumes, the Morris Dance in the first act, the later settings in Sherwood Forest...
...Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. He had defended Francis G. Caffey, receiver for the New York & Cuba Steamship Co. Other clients whose cases he carried to the Supreme Court: Victor Talking Machine Co., Beechnut Packing Co., Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Aetna Insurance Co., Swift & Co., De Forest Radio, U. S. Industrial Chemical Co.. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Wabash R. R., General Electric Co. When his son Charles Evans Hughes Jr. became Solicitor General of the U. S. last year, Mr. Hughes Sr. dropped all cases in which the U. S. was his opponent...
When the report was digested, "Roxy" began his message. Gaily colorful is "Roxy" who, in 1907, after seven years in the Marine Corps, borrowed chairs from an undertaker and started a motion picture house in Forest City, Pa. Immensely genial, he proclaims that his chief ambition is "to live to see the day when I could throw all cares aside and go some place in a little flat-bottomed boat. And there in that boat I could sit under a big sunbonnet, with a little, old fishing pole, and I could sit all day and fish for sunfish and perch...
General opinion on the Lake Forest campus: This most recent spatter of mud is an effort to attack the smiles of Dakota universities, jealous of the place of the East, to get them into a position to favor his application for a job. Puddling would be bigger there... Very truly yours, Timothy Perry...