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...York City, Walter S. Salani '33 of New York City, Robert D. Sand '35 of New York City, Herbert P. Schoen '35 of Glerr Falls, New York, Frederick C. Schuldt Jr. '33 of St. Paul, Minnesota, Carl Seeman, Jr. '35 of New York City, Harry Shershevsky '35 of Dorchester, Abraham S. Silin '33 of Erie, Pennsylvania William S. Sims, Jr. '33 of Boston, Stephen Smith '34 of Port Chester, New York Gordon C. Streeter '34 of Stonington, Connecticut, James P. Waite, Jr. '35, of New York City, Richard J. Walsh, Jr. '34 of Pelham, New York, Arthur W. Well...
Less skeptical than Europeans, delighted Latin Americans seemed to expect prompt and sweeping tariff abatements as the first card in the new deal. Only President in the world actually to speak out on the U. S. election was Chile's Acting President Abraham Oyanedel. "The program of the Democrats," he cried, "is in exact alignment with Chilean aspirations! . . . A mutual reduction of tariff barriers is of transcendental importance...
...Died. Abraham E. Lefcourt, 55, Manhattan realtor; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Onetime newsboy and bootblack, he had total Manhattan realty holdings in 1928 of more than $50.000.000. had perhaps razed more historic landmarks, raised more skyscrapers than any other man. Said he, "If something should happen . . . to sweep away every dollar I have in the world ... I could rebuild my fortune in half the time." He planned in 1925 a huge $10,000.000 loft building for his son Alan, 13. Alan died; he put up an eight-story building with his son's bust over the entrance...
...Schodack, N. Y. Mrs. Elizabeth Rhoda, 102, was too infirm to go out and vote for Hoover. The President wrote her: "I am deeply touched. . . . I will take the will for the deed." ¶ As a little girl Mrs. George Carleton Beal, 75, of Manhattan, once sat in Abraham Lincoln's lap. Since then she has always voted straight Republican. Said she: "But I'm for Roosevelt this time. What I want is a man of action. . . ." ¶ Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, declared for Hoover: ''This is no time to make over human society...
...Episcopal Church which he called, in the words of Phillips Brooks, "the roomiest church in Christendom." Dr. Newton needed room. Burly, round-faced, sharp-eyed, a fluent preacher, he had brought with him poetic mysticism without losing any of his old-time Baptist zeal. An authority on Abraham Lincoln, he read 2,000 works before writing Lincoln and Herndon. For McCall's Magazine he now edits a column of sermons-of-the-month...