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...founder of the movement, and which was left by Miss Willard as a legacy to Miss Gordon. The delegates made a pilgrimage to this shrine of their Union on the occasion of "the joyous culmination," as Miss Gordon termed the Jubilee. With nearly 500,000 members and 20,000 local unions in the U. S., with Unions in 51 countries and delegates present from all the hemispheres, pointing to the past with pride, looking to the future with the keenest anticipation, the parent organization celebrated its anniversary with pageantry pictures of its 50 years...
...Brackett was born in New Hampshire and brought up on a farm. After studying and teaching in the local district schools he entered the Harvard Dental School in 1871. In 1874 he was appointed instructor and then advanced step by step to assistant professor, professor of dental therapeutics, professor of dental pathology, and finally to professor of oral pathology...
...election. From the standpoint of candidates it means Coolidge on the one hand and large numbers of Democratic candidates on the other hand; that the Democratic candidates individually had sufficiently strong holds on their constituents to split tickets in wholesale fashion. It proved an extraordinary number of popular, if local, heroes...
College graduates who desire to pursue a political career should first of all join a local party club," said Frank L. Polk, Under Secretary of State in the Wilson administration, when be was interviewed at the Union yesterday, where he presided at a luncheon of the National Municipal League...
...necessary," said Mr. Polk, "for men to hold office in order to engage in politics. In my opinion, it is far better for a young man to manifest interest in his local problems and affairs than to start off with definite opinions and set ideas concerning the League of Nations and such international matters about which his information must necessarily be second-hand...