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...frame house in the frontier town of Lawton. Across the street hung the shingle of a young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice-Thomas Pryor Gore. Frequent court opponents, they were friends, and both had their shoes shined by a newsboy named Riley. In that frontier world all things were possible, for today Thomas and Gore* represent the sovereign State of Oklahoma in the U. S. Senate, and Fletcher Settle Riley is Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, youngest man to hold such an honor in any state. Thomas Pryor Gore was sent...
...original J. P. Morgan. Today, as from its beginning, Morgan men sit prominently on the board of U. S. Steel. Last week one more Morgan man, not a partner but a son of the House, was chosen to help mold the destinies of Steel. His name is Edward Riley Stettinius and he has, by reputation, the driving power of a locomotive...
...original Edward Riley Stettinius was a matchmaker (president of Diamond Match) from St. Louis who was picked by the House of Morgan to buy supplies for the Allies before the U. S. entered the War. He did so well that in 1916 he was made a Morgan partner. He, too, was known as a driver. After the U. S. entered the War he became one of Bernard Baruch's big right hands in getting U. S. War supplies, and later Assistant Secretary of War. When he died in 1925, he left a widow with a "show place" at Locust...
...team from Fort Riley, Kans., winner of last year's title, was slow to start. The Irish Free State squad forged to the front with faultless rides by its Leader Captain Dan Corry and Captain Fred Ahearn. On Swedish Day the Swedish team celebrated by nosing into first place while the Irish dropped to third behind the U. S. The finals found Lieut. Carl Raguse of the U. S. matched against Sweden's Lieut. Nyblaeus for the deciding round. Mounted on Ugly, Lieut. Raguse cleared every barrier without a fault. Lieut. Nyblaeus had to equal that performance...
110th Company; Riley, S. Woods, r.e.; Lepper, Carden, r.t.; Conley, r.g.; Bowley, Haight, c.; Oakland, Durant, l.g.; Gowash, l.t.; Flahwick, R. Woods, Ryland, l.e.; Nissen, Tierney, q.b.; Genna, Blakely, r.h.b.; Barthelmess, LeBlane, l.h.b.; Vitale, King...