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But Justice Holmes is as venerable as his father, and equals his sire in other respects. The father began his career by studying law, assayed literature and wrote Old Ironsides. Finally he settled on medicine. He never attained great success as a physician, although his contributions to medicine were well...
Robert Todd Lincoln was born in Springfield, Ill., in 1843, in the little white house with green blinds where his ex-Congressman father had settled down to practice law. He was named for his Kentucky-banker grandfather, Robert Todd. He took after his impetuous, affectionate fault-finding mother. He attended...
¶ Major U. S. Grant 3rd,* Army officer in charge of public buildings in the Capital, reported to the House Appropriations Committee that the roof of the White House has settled since 1912, when it was repaired, that the trusses supporting it have slipped and that much of its weight...
Later that day a bellboy brought a sealed envelope to the President of the United Mine Workers. Mr. Lewis tore open the telegram, read it and grinned. He turned to the strike leaders and reporters who were gathered around. "Listen to this: 'Desire get married the day strike is settled...
From far and wide the delegates had gathered. The slogan of the convention was GOODWILL, a word which had been thought up by the directors of the association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase...