Portrait of an American: Charles G. DawesFull-length, sympathetic biography of the American lawyer and banker. |
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Page 158
He was the man who rode with Paul Revere on the memorable night in April , 1775 . Not quite three years later , on February 17 , 1917 , the Mary Dawes Hotel for Women was opened in Chicago . It had 250 rooms at ten , twenty , and thirty ...
He was the man who rode with Paul Revere on the memorable night in April , 1775 . Not quite three years later , on February 17 , 1917 , the Mary Dawes Hotel for Women was opened in Chicago . It had 250 rooms at ten , twenty , and thirty ...
Page 160
On bitter cold nights , the streets of every great city are a Gethsemane for many of the homeless and half - clad poor ... “ Late one winter night , when the thermometer stood at ten degrees below zero , and after the doors of the hotel ...
On bitter cold nights , the streets of every great city are a Gethsemane for many of the homeless and half - clad poor ... “ Late one winter night , when the thermometer stood at ten degrees below zero , and after the doors of the hotel ...
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I was to leave that night to continue my talks with Young and Morrow in New York on the preparations for putting the Reparations plan into effect . As I passed the door of Calvin's room I chanced to look in .
I was to leave that night to continue my talks with Young and Morrow in New York on the preparations for putting the Reparations plan into effect . As I passed the door of Calvin's room I chanced to look in .
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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