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Show Calder Has a Deposit for a Rainy Day 1 ..'W'!:V.-'S William M. Calder of Brooklyn has been nominated by the Republicans for another term In the United States senate. He was elected In 1018 and served five terms in the house. Congress, Con-gress, as everyone knows, is largely made up of lawyers. For example, open the congressional directory and you will find that the first 12 members listed are lawyers. Anyway, Senator Calder Is one of the comparatively few business men of the senate. . He is a house builder and one of the largest In the country. Apparently be got Into the business busi-ness naturally. He Is the son of a boss carpenter. When thirteen years old, he left school to go to work as an apprentice to his father, for a consideration con-sideration of his board and keep at home and thirty five cents a week. For the six succeeding years Mr. Calder worked by day and went to school at nlcht. This studv he augmented by a three-years' course In the Cooper Institute of New York. At the age of twenty he was made foreman of his father's shop, then employing one hundred men. He received $18 a week and Ms bosrd at home. Mr. Calder's ambition was to save $1,000 by the time he cast his first vote. On his twenty-first birthday hi bunk book in the South Saving Imultnte allowed a balance of $1,100. |