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...Members jumped up to remonstrate with Mr. Schafer. Mr. Sproul of Illinois demanded that Mr. Schafer's words be stricken from the record. Mr. Schafer refused. A knot of members surrounded Mr. Schafer while his remarks were being transcribed by the clerk. Finally "to save time" Mr. Schafer withdrew what he had said...
...Civil War and there operated a modest hide and leather business from his store on Vesey street. A neighboring store keeper, one Gilman from Bridgeport, Conn., was in the spice and tea business, and in 1859 the first Hartford went to work for Gilman as store manager. Gilman soon withdrew from the business. He had a peculiarity that doubtless was most trying to Hartford. He feared death so terribly that he would endure near him no mirrors in which he might note the shriveling of his features, no clocks which clicked their hurrying seconds against his ears...
...owed thanks to Chauncey Depew from its inception. He stumped for its first candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856, and attended every Republican convention from 1860 to 1920. All the Presidents from Lincoln to Harding knew him well. In 1888, he himself received 99 votes for the nomination, but withdrew in favor of Harrison, who later asked him to be Secretary of State. He declined, having the presidency of the New York Central R. R. to attend to. In 1899 he entered the Senate, but his two terms were chiefly sociable. Politics, with him, was a sideline. Business came first...
...Government of His Most Catholic Majesty Alphonso XIII, King of Spain, officially withdrew, last week, the notice which they gave two years ago of an intention to withdraw in 1928 from membership in the League of Nations...
Bernard Mannes Baruch made all the millions he thought he needed-a score or more-and withdrew from Wall Street in 1912. "Greatest speculator of his generation" he was called by men who knew. Envious men accused him of having a sixth sense-a feminine intuition that guided his financial darts and swoops. His own explanation was the original definition of the verb "to speculate." He said: "Analyze the word and you'll find that it comes from the latin speculare, to observe. According to the dictionary, it means to ponder a subject in its different aspects and relations...