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Career: Educated in the common schools, he attended the Southeast Alabama Agricultural School at Abbeville for two years (1890-92), moving on to the University of Alabama to obtain a law degree (1893). After nine years' private practice he became solicitor for his native county, later serving a term (1906-07) in the Alabama House of Representatives. Quick of mind, sharp of tongue, he had himself chosen prosecuting attorney for his district, a position he held when he attended the Democratic National Convention as a delegate in Baltimore in 1912. As a small-town lawyer, he was nominated...
...personal attorney before the committee, Secretary Mellon chose a man even younger than Impeacher Patman. As a young clerk "Alex" Gregg entered the Treasury in 1920, became Solicitor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, retired in 1927. Last week Lawyer Gregg, now out in private practice, arose before the Judiciary Committee to defend his chief...
...proposal to purchase heat from Harvard University for the use of the new Rindge Technical School. The outcome of the discussion was the adoption of an order calling for the establishment of a central heating plant in the School, and a motion for an investigation by the city solicitor as to the legality of Mayor Russell's plan...
...From there he went to the New York Herald, was managing editor of its London edition, joined the World in 1893, became acting managing editor. Ten years ago he took charge of the Almanac. His staff consists only of Associate Editor Fletcher Cooper, a business manager, an advertising solicitor and two stenographers. Specialists helped out in fields such as sport, finance, science, etc. etc. Last year 296.000 copies of the Almanac were sold, about one-third of them in the New York metropolitan area. Of the new issue 300,000 copies were distributed. Advertising dropped less than 3% from last...
...nothing published except a small pamphlet relating the astonishing adventures of a romantic steer in its effort to find congenial com pany. He refuses to dress up on week days, goes about his business clad like a laborer, but is described as a "mighty sweet little advertising solicitor...