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Appointed. Mrs. Adena Miller Rich, fortyish, longtime resident social worker at Chicago's Hull House, onetime secretary to its late great founder Jane Addams: to succeed Jane Addams as the institution's head resident.
After a month spent in Soviet Russia in 1931 Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick (Mrs. Albert Wallwick) Dilling returned to her Chicago suburb to write and publish The Red Network, which includes in its list of some 1,300 U. S. radicals the names of Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes, Senator Borah, Professor...
Died. Jane Addams, 74, pioneer social worker, lecturer, pacifist, reformer, founder 46 years ago of Chicago's Hull House, first and most famed settlement house in the U.S.; after an operation for abdominal adhesions and cancer; in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt called her "America's most useful citizen." For...
After working as interpreter (he speaks ten languages) under Jane Addams at Chicago's Hull House, Williamson suddenly decided he needed an education, won a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Iowa, a Master's degree in Economics and Anthropology at Harvard. Onetime assistant professor of sociology...
Fathered by a bushy-haired, oldtime social worker named Charles Frederick Weller and a chubby little Hindu named Kedernath Das Gupta, the World Fellowship has for chairman famed Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell, for honorary presidents Jane Addams and Herbert Hoover (who let his name be used "if anyone thought...