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Bacon v. Whitney. Mrs. John Harlan Amen, daughter of Grover Cleveland, made a speech to help Democrat Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney in the 1st New York Congressional District. Nominee Whitney's grandfather served in Mrs. Amen's father's Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. Meanwhile Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, wife of the Republican incumbent, campaigned for her husband among Long Island Italians in their own language...
First the Nation's guest had to have the Order of Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
Died. Marie Paul Ernest Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane, Marquis of the 1st French Empire (sic), 64, spender, dandy, duellist, onetime husband of Jay Gould's daughter Anna; of a paralytic stroke; in Paris. He battened his reputation for the grand manner with his wife's millions. She divorced him for presenting her with "kings & emperors one day, slaps the next," married his cousin, Duc de Talleyrand. "Boni'' wrote two books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year...
Class of 1932 Moses AbramovitzWalton: Compleat Angler John Barton Appelbaum Helboin: Dance of Death Garrett Birkhoff Translation by Coleridge of the 1st part of Schiller's Wallenstein Harold Leslie Biabee Vitno Caesarum Jacob Canter Petrarea Rime Frank Gilchrist Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield Henry Adams Morss James: Charles W. Eliot David Henry Popper James: Charles W. Eliot James Wallerstein Gaskell: Cranford Henry Babcock Veatch Bridges: Testament of Beauty James Wallerstein Gilbert: The Savey Operas William Barry Wood Masefield's Poems Paul Maurice Zoll Sterne: Tristram Shandy Class of 1933 Molvin Leon Anshon Rowley's Poems Morton Clark Bradley Soldlitz: History...
...most U. S. citizens the name of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, is known as that of the longtime (1905-16) British Foreign Secretary who reluctantly but vigorously led his country into the World War. Rhodes Scholars know that he is Chancellor of Oxford University. Sportsmen and naturalists may have heard that he is an ardent fisherman and a lover of wild life, but few are aware of the extent to which he has carried this passion, of the work and patience the weak-eyed old gentleman (he is 70) has expended to tame wild fowl...