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...Minister who pressured him off the throne. With his chin well out, the Duke was said to have introduced his lady to their visitors as "Her Royal Highness." The tall Prime Minister and the taller Foreign Secretary acknowledged, but scarcely confirmed this title with a bow. Later Paris socialites, abuzz over this first meeting since the abdication between the Duke and top-rank British officials, speculated whether the Ministers had thus tacitly recognized the royal status of the Duchess...
...inferior materials cost laundrymen some $6,000,000 a year; dry-cleaners some $16,000,000. And even the best rayon must be washed and ironed differently from silks if it is not to be injured. Women's clubs as long ago as 1920 were abuzz over the matter and in 1921 the General Federation of Women's Clubs adopted a truth-in-fabrics resolution. Last year the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, through a committee headed by Miss Jaffray, sent a petition to Washington demanding that all goods have labels identifying their fibre...
...noon last March 500 civic-minded Utica matrons crowded into the dining room of the Utica Hotel abuzz with talk over Utica's latest, hottest club idea. No men were to be invited, but husbands clamored so loudly they were finally permitted to fill up a few tables. Boys from nearby Hamilton College came to town begging for reservations. The guest of honor, Miss Cathrine Curtis, whose radio talks on Women & Money had inspired the luncheon, was so excited she could not eat. Over plates of steaming chicken the ladies listened to speeches, applauded, voted. Result: Women Investors...
Last week, however, a sturdy, efficient and economical picking machine seemed at hand. The South was abuzz with conjecture. The machine had been nursed through long years of experiment by its inventors, John D. Rust and his brother Mack. On one side of their harvester is a tunnel-like opening from front to back so that the machine straddles the row of plants. Into this opening a line of small, smooth, revolving rods project sideways. Carried on an endless belt, the rods first pass through a moistening device, then comb through the cotton plants. Because the rods...
What set the Episcopal world abuzz last week was not the fact of Trinity's wealth but an idea advanced by its $18,000-a-year rector, Dr. Frederic S. Fleming. He thought the time had come for the Protestant Episcopal Church, like the Church of England, to have a permanent head, with the title of archbishop. He hopes the General Convention at Atlantic City next October will confer that honor upon the Church's present Presiding Bishop, pontifical James DeWolf Perry. Wrote Rector Fleming...