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...convention at Cleveland this week was a Battle of Ivry. Like the French Protestants and Catholics at Ivry in 1590, two schools of economic thought were to fight for supremacy. Leader of one faction was Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist organization of America. Leader of the other (in absentia) was Louis Dembitz Brandeis chairman of the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs (1914-18), Honorary President of the L. O. A. from 1918 to 1921 (when U. S. Zionists, displeased with his principles, ousted him and his whole group from their organization). Now he wanted to oust...
Married. Irving T. Bush, president of the Bush Terminal Co., Brooklyn; to Marian Spore, sister of Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam; at Reno. Nev., one hour after Mrs. Maud Howard Beard Bush, his second wife, had obtained a Reno divorce in absentia...
Town &. Country. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, President in absentia of Stanford University, opined: "We have gathered great numbers of our children into concrete and brick cities. ... It is very difficult to bring up children with the sense of responsibility which is so important, with the electric or gas stove, chemical refrigeration and milk coming in a sterilized bottle...
Garvan's Random Thoughts. Francis Patrick Garvan, lawyer, onetime (1919) Alien Property Custodian, brother-in-law of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper), received in absentia the society's Priestley Medal, its highest award, for "distinguished service to chemistry," for being "the greatest lay patron of chemistry in this country." He organized and is president of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends...
...more gold and guns. With these he may either play Russia's game or settle down to fortify his stronghold in Mongolia. That the Cantonese of the extreme South expect Bolshevik loyalty from Feng of the extreme North was proved last week when he was elected in absentia to a seat on the Executive Council of the Cantonese Soviet...