National Affairs: Hugo N. Frye

Last month Editors Edward T. Horn and Lester A. Blummer of the "Berry Patch" (funny) column in the Cornell Daily Sun decided that the time had come to celebrate the 150th birthday of one

Hugo N. Frye of Elmira, N. Y. To a Frye dinner at Ithaca they invited Vice President Charles Curtis, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, Senator Joseph Ridgway Grundy, Republican National Committee Chairman Claudius Hart Huston, many another famed Republican. Because they knew their guests' knowledge of local history was not so good as their own, the Cornell editors obligingly...

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