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...Chairmen of the House Committees on Naval and on Military Affairs both called by request at the White House to talk over Air matters. Congressman Butler of the Naval Affairs Committee had proposed an expenditure of $85,000,000 over five years on naval aviation, and Congressman Morin was planning a $60,000,000 program for the same period in the Army...
Congressman Robert G. Houston, who was for three years President of the Delaware State Sunday School Association, interrupted him with a request to face the committee: "I hardly feel that the speaker's attitude is respectful...
...last conference of the Intercollegiate Debating League, Harvard. Yale, and Princeton asked that they be assigned a semi humorous subject for their annual debate on March 27. This request was allowed at the time but they were later assigned the subject: "Resolved. That compulsory enrolment in the Reserve Officers Training Corps should be abolished...
...years later he was admitted to the Illinois bar, returning to Washington in 1881 at the request of President Garfield who asked him to be Secretary of War. Waiting one day at a railway station, he witnessed a second presidential assassination as Garfield left the train. President Arthur retained him alone of Garfield's secretaries...
After four years, he returned to Illinois and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 another request, this time from President Harrison, took him to London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Returning again to his native state, he refused to run for the U. S. Senate. George A. Pullman died and Mr. Lincoln became executor of his estate, enjoying a $400,000 fee and the presidency of the sleeping car company. He visited the Buffalo Exposition and witnessed a third presidential assassination, McKinley shot by Anarchist Czolgosz...