Dawes
Dawes names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Dawes CHARLES GATES, an American financier and public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES GATES, an American financier and public official; born in Marietta, O., in 1865. He graduated from Marietta College in 1884 and studied law at the Cincinnati Law School. After his admission to the bar in 1886 he practiced law in Lincoln, Neb. In 1894 he left law to engage in business, He was active in politics and was a member of the executive committee of the Republican National Committee in the campaign of 1896. From 1897 to 1902 he was Comptroller of the Currency. He served in the World War in the Engineers, rising to the rank of brigadier-general. He served in France on the administrative staff of the commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Force as chairman of the General Purchasing Board and general purchasing agent. He was also a member of the Allied Purchasing Board and the Liquidation Commission of the Allies. For his services he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and the Order of Leopold, King of Belgium. He wrote "The Canking System of the United States" (1892); and "Essays and Speeches" (1915).
Dawes HENRY LAURENS, an American legislator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY LAURENS, an American legislator; born in Cummington, Mass., Oct. 30, 1816. He was graduated at Yale in 1839. Becoming a lawyer, he entered the State Senate as a Republic Republican and in 1857 was elected until to Congress, serving in the House 1873. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1875, and was re-elected in 1881 and 1887. The condition of the Indian tribes especially claimed his attention, and after 1893 he was head of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. He died at Pittsfield, Mass., Feb. 5, 1903.
Dawes CHARLES GATES, appointed first Director of the Budget
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES GATES, appointed first Director of the Budget, June 21, 1921.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Charles Gates Dawes in 1921 at the moment he became the first Director of the Budget, and had no way of knowing what followed: the 1924 Dawes Plan for German reparations, a share of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize, the vice presidency under Coolidge from 1925 to 1929, and the London embassy after that. He also wrote a piano piece, Melody in A Major, that was fitted with words in 1951 and became the number one hit It's All in the Game, months before his death that same year. Henry Laurens Dawes is now known almost entirely for the one thing the 1921 sketch leaves unnamed, the General Allotment Act of 1887, which broke tribal landholdings into individual parcels and is reckoned to have cost Native nations roughly ninety million acres before Congress halted allotment in 1934. The Dawes Rolls his commission compiled among the Five Tribes are still consulted today, as the basis for Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole citizenship claims.
Written for this edition, 2026.