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Mayer Russell and his aides spent Sunday afternoon naming streets in these precincts. The amorphous area, of tar between the Brooks House and the Music Building was enobied by that name of names, "General Thaddeus Kosciuazko Square," in honor of a hero of the Rebellion of 1776, We suggested "Colonel Charles R. Apted '06 Square," in memory of the Rebellion...
James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, went before the bankers and told them, the names of the two directors who with himself will administer the deposit guarantee law: Walter Joseph Cummings, executive assistant in the Treasury, close friend of William Hartman Woodin, and Elbert G. Bennett, banker of Ogden, Utah. These announcements the polite bankers applauded. And they listened politely when Comptroller O'Connor told them: ''Every depositor has a right to his money. This law makes the theory a fact. It will banish fear in every banker's mind of runs...
Harper's Weekly recorded the first balloon honeymoon in the U. S. in 1865, when Mary West Jenkins of Northampton, Mass, married John F. Boynton. Their pilot was Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, who had proposed to fly a balloon across the Atlantic but gave up the scheme when the Civil War broke out. (He organized and commanded a two-balloon air force for the Union Army.) A crowd of 6,000 cheered the take-off of the Jenkins-Boynton party from Manhattan's Central Park. The balloon was a gorgeous affair, the basket draped with...
...House of Representatives, I impeach Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors and offer the following resolution. . . ." The House, shocked as if by electricity, sat bolt upright. For 20 seconds there was a stunned silence. Not since 1868 when that other Pennsylvanian, lame Thaddeus Stevens, made charges against Andrew Johnson, had the awful ritual of impeachment been uttered in the House against a U. S. President.* An excited buzzing broke loose as Representative McFadden passed his resolution to the clerk on the rostrum and took a seat on the front-row bench. Beneath...
...Herbert Hoover . . . unlawfully usurped legislative powers ... a policy inimical to the welfare of the United REPRESENTATIVE MCFADDEN He followed Thaddeus Stevens. States . . . unlawfully dissipated financial resources . . . injured the credit and financial standing ... his declaration of the moratorium has meant sacrifices by the American people. ... He did appoint one Andrew W. Mellon Ambassador while a resolution for the impeachment of the said Mellon was being heard. . . . Treated with contumely the veterans . . . sent a military force heavily armed against homeless, hungry, sick, ragged and defenseless men, women and children and drove them out by force of fire and sword. . . ." When the clerk...