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...comes to Washington to wangle, from New Deal Bigwig Glen Ritchie, a contract to convert a languishing toy factory into an ordnance plant. With him comes fleshly, flashy, proletarian Jane Rogers (Paulette Goddard), who has flirted her way out of the firm's toy donkey department into a secretaryship. First night in Washington the roomless pair huddle miserably under the horse-belly of a Civil War monument...
When Gompers died in 1924, it was no radical, but upstanding Baptist Bill Green whom Lewis nominated for the A.F. of L. presidency. By 1927 Lewis was strong enough in the hearts of the Republicans to be offered the Secretaryship of Labor by President Calvin Coolidge...
...expenses. Four years later, he lost the nomination to Calvin Coolidge. rejected the nomination for vice president. He had previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Harding offered him the Navy Secretaryship, Coolidge wanted him either as Secretary of Agriculture or Ambassador to Britain. In 1928 Lowden enjoyed a small corn-belt boom as independent candidate for the Presidential nomination; failing that, he retired to work his Illinois farm on the Rock River, occasionally received political bigwigs who came...
Ormonde de Kay, Jr. 45, of Leverett House and Bangor, Me., will be Pegasus for the coming year, while Andrew Murphy '44 of Leverett House and Marblehead, Mass., was named to the secretaryship. Appointed to the post of treasurer was Thomas A. Foley, Jr. '45 of Eliot House and Baltimore. Howard M. Spiro '44 of Lowell House and Newton Center, Mass., was elected business manager, and Edward R. Squibb, 3rd '45 of Winthrop House and Milton, Mass., was chosen circulation manager...
...made him the first director on the spot. He was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, whose wife wrote the now-famous words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The institution was named after Col. Thomas H. Perkins, who was once asked by George Washington to accept the secretaryship in his cabinet, but refused because he already owned more ships than the United States government. Between 1832, when the first classes were held in the home of Dr. Howe's father, to 1913, when it moved to an old estate in Watertown, its present site, Perkins has changed location only four...