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People and politics observed by a Massachusetts editor
- Title
- People and politics observed by a Massachusetts editor, by Solomon Bulkley Griffin.
- Author
- Griffin, Solomon Bulkley, 1852-1925
- Publication
- Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., 1923.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 1085.408 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 510 p. front., pl., ports., facsims. (l fold.); 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Springfield in the seventies -- The advantages of environment -- Entrance into a greate school -- Strenuous early days of service -- Comrades of those first years -- A small city's personalities -- Life in my first boarding house -- Getting out and about a bit -- A period of retrenchment -- City administrations in review -- Aspects of reporting days -- A leader in medicine and surgery -- Growing into the life and work -- Studying outlying towns and cities -- Tunnel blast on Thanksgiving Day -- The great reservoir disaster -- First presidential campaign -- Characteristics of governors -- First convention reporting -- Centennial exposition period -- First vote and the disputed election -- The Hayes administration -- Centennial week in Vermont -- A lively year in state politics -- Talbot's fruitful administration -- Dark horses in the convention of 1880 -- Garfield's election and inauguration -- Pitiful ending of a great career -- Arthur's difficulties and the results -- When Benjamin F. Butler became governor -- George D. Robinson as candidate and governor -- Roosevelt and Lodge decide for party -- First nomination of Grover Cleveland -- When Cleveland tackled the presidency -- Spirit of the Mugwump Movement of 1884 -- The campaign and election of 1888 -- Overturn in congressional elections -- Governor Russell period recalled -- Big swing of the political pendulum -- High points in Cleveland's second term -- McKinley, Reed and the gold plank in 1896 -- Chicago meets the challenge of St. Louis -- McKinley's cabinet and the war with Spain -- State and nation in the Mckinley period -- When Roosevelt was pushed near the presidency -- Roosevelt's free and forceful period -- Taft put forward and elected president -- Mr. Crane's record as governor and senator -- Some differentiations of governors -- Extreme bitterness of the republican split -- How Bryan cleared the way for Wilson -- Wilson's theory and practice as an executive -- Stress and devotion in the World War.
- LCCN
- 23008610
- OCLC
- ocm00170861
- 170861
- SCSB-580183
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library