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...grandfather was the first Union soldier killed at Fort Sumter in the prelude to the Civil War) or to join the Catholic priesthood. They have known him at work in the Diocese of Brooklyn and in Chicago. They have heard his eloquence (he speaks several languages). They know ms gestures, his habit of forgetting names...
Excise Taxes. Groups from several industries asked for abolition of the taxes on the things which they produced?automobiles, f i r e a r ms, cameras, jewelry, etc. The taxicab drivers wanted their $10 tax abolished; the motorboat and yacht builders wanted the tax on motorboat users removed...
When The Vortex was in rehearsal, A. L. Erlanger, veteran of theatrical production and real estate, removed his name from the program because he objected to the situation in the third act where a son describes to her face and with some emphasis Ms mother's moral status. From this and other reports the impression was current that the play was modern, obscene and objectionable. It turned out to be a study, in several of the characters, of idle rich degeneracy. So true was the portraiture, so sure the writing, so engrossing the setting, and so perfect the performance that...
...other events were won by L. D. Brayton '28 in the 100-yard dash W. I. Taylor '28 in the mile F. B. Clark Lutmann '28 in the mile F. B. Clark '28 in the pole vault and H. C. Ms comber '28 in the high jump...
...common a pursuit for the indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was forty years ago. In those days such incidents as the following were not uncommon. "A workingman came into my shop with a book under his arm:--Hone's Everyday Book, 1839, with a good many MS. marginal notes signed or initialled "Charles Lamb." He said...