Word: whitlock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FAYETTE-Brand Whitlock-Apple-ton (two vols...
...that Biographer Whitlock has written has been written before-and often. That no living figure emerges from 927 pages is due, not alone to a gullible reliance on the smooth, hard surface of La Fayette's memoirs, but to the Whitlock intentions and method: "I have tried to look through his eyes at the men he knew and events. ... I have not made up any conversations or rearranged any events with an eye to dramatic effect." Biographer Whitlock's eclectic synthesis, whatever it may do to the real La Fayette, emphasizes the not very astonishing fact that...
...contributed $25,000 to the Hoover campaign fund (Postmaster General Brown is a fellow townsman) and he was "responsible" for an additional $125,000. He has been "mentioned" for Ambassador to France, Japan, Turkey. After the War, when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along with the procession, a policeman forced him to the curb. Ever since 1900 when, as Fierce-Arrow sales-agent he wore out his first Fierce-Arrow demonstrating it, he has been "good...
...attended the Cleveland School of Art and then one day met the Norwegian painter Henrik Lund, who scorned orthodox artistic education and advised him to strike out for himself. Geddes began painting portraits of such people as Brand Whitlock, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Galli-Curci, Enrico Caruso, and a dozen others, but having a mother and younger brother to support (he was then 20 years old), he got a job in a Detroit Advertising agency. He was ousted when the president discovered that Mr. Geddes spent many office hours dictating dramas to the presidential private secretary...
White Alderman Merritt Martindale, senior Councilman, interrupted Mr, Whitlock. "Now, Bill." he said, "I hope you're not going to take a wrong view of us whites. The difference is there and it does no good to try to hide...