Washington, West of the Cascades: Historical and Descriptive; the Explorers, the Indians, the Pioneers, the Modern, Volume 3S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1917 - Washington (State) |
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Page 249 - You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all the time," which by substitution might read as well, "Some of the people are unreasonable all of the time...
Page 290 - Jacobus exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He...
Page 180 - He exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Republican party, but has never sought or desired office, preferring to give his time and attention to his business affairs, in which he is meeting with creditable and well-deserved success.
Page 485 - ... and entered upon the discharge of the duties of the office. On the sixteenth day of July Boxton resigned the office of mayor, and on the same day Edward R.
Page 240 - At no time has his reading ever been confined to the limitation of the questions at issue. It has gone beyond and compassed every contingency and provided not alone for the expected but for the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them.
Page 25 - ... growth and progress, yet his greatest service to the city has been the unsparing gift of his time, thought and heart to those institutions and agencies which have done so much toward building up the character of its youth and young manhood and assisted in making Seattle what it is, a city of character. HON. JOHN HARTE McGRAW. The name of John Harte McGraw is indelibly impressed upon the history of Seattle and the northwest, for he did much to shape public opinion at a most trying period in the...
Page 401 - His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but while he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day he...
Page 48 - Thompson's contributions to charity and diplomacy were real and creditable, his signal service was in the vigor he lent to the pioneer era. in making this region habitable, in bringing its resources to light and in stamping his intensely practical ideas upon the educational system "of the state. Such careers are too near us now for their significance to be appraised at its true value, but the future will be able to trace the tremendous effect of their labors upon the society and the institutions...
Page 154 - Morton is a republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but has never sought nor desired office.
Page 49 - ... by his own unaided exertions. It is well that so successful a life should also have found time for the finer things our self-made men are...