Greatest Americans list sparks debate over top five
Harvard professor Dr. Malone ranked Washington Lincoln Jefferson Franklin and Wilson as the five greatest Americans. The article notes strong ongoing disputes over Roosevelt and the absence of women, with Walter Farragut suggested as a substitute for Grant or Lee, and honors the enduring controversy the list provokes.
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Lincoln
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Dumas Malone
Harvard University Press
Frederick Jackson Turner
American Council of Learned Societies
James Monroe
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Winfield Scott
Stonewall” Jackson
Malone
Jefferson
Franklin
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Harvard
Roosevelt
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George Washington
Republic
America
Dolly Madison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frances Perkins
David G. Farragut
Harper’s
Barbara Bell Sewing Patterns Ad Teases New Book
A Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book offers designs for children, young women and matrons with patterns 1268 1292 and 1255. Each pattern lists sizes yardage and trimming details with costs 15 cents per copy. Orders go to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Room 1020 211 W Wacker Dr Chicago Ill. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Notable Americans by Rank in Statesmen and Literary Figures
A ranked list names top figures across statesmen soldiers jurists poets and clerics. Included are Washington Jefferson Lincoln Franklin Woodrow Wilson Madison Marshall Hamilton Grant Lee Jackson Calhoun Adams Adams Jefferson Davis Roosevelt Douglas Webster Cleveland Bryan Scott Story Emerson Hawthorne Clemens Whitman Thoreau Cooper Greeley Edwards Eliot and others.
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Grant
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Theodore Roosevelt
Stephen Jas
Doudias
Pawel Wetner
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Jackson
John C. Calhoun
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Stephen A, Douglas
Daniel Webster
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allen
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Jamies James Fenimore Cooper
Horace Greeley
Attendance record in U S House history noted by Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly notes the House has never opened a session with all members present. The nearest to full attendance occurred December 7, 1931, at the start of the Seventy-second Congress when 433 of 435 members answered roll call.
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Collier's Weekly
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