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1927?New York City Alderman...
Last week the Socialists, with considerably less harmony, began formulating the issues on which Nominees Thomas & Maurer will campaign. A bitter struggle resulted in what Colyumist Heywood Broun, defeated Socialist candidate for Congress and New York City alderman, wryly called his "first political victory." The convention voted (80-to-71) for repeal of the 18th Amendment and Government sale of liquor. Other plans: U. S. recognition of Soviet Russia, participation in the League of Nations, ten billion dollars worth of Federal unemployment relief and public works, cancellation of War debts, increased inheritance, personal and corporation income taxes, a two-year...
...without a president is the University of Virginia. Another president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Newton Diehl Baker (whom Princeton's Morris succeeded), lately pooh-poohed the suggestion that he had been offered the Virginia post occupied by Dean John Lloyd Newcomb since the death of Edwin Anderson Alderman last year. Last week Virginia was apparently no nearer than Princeton to finding...
...last winter the Minsky mother house, the National Winter Garden, was at Houston Street and Second Avenue, teeming Jewish district. Father Minsky immigrated from Russia and became a leading merchant on Grand Street when Grand Street was the location of Lord & Taylor and Arnold Constable. He was also elected alderman and got in the construction business. With Lawyer Max D. Steuer he put up the Winter Garden Building. It housed two theatres, one on the sixth floor, one on the first. Brother Billy, 45, started showing films in the upper auditorium in 1912. Brother Abe, 54, had been running...
...William Henry Vanderbilt, 30, onetime Princeton student, is president of the Rhode Island Senate. Last week James Simpson Jr., 27, son of Marshall Field's board chairman, was nominated for Congress in the Illinois Republican primaries (see n. 19). Joseph Clark Baldwin III. 35, Harvard 1920, New York Alderman from the 15th ("Silk Stocking") District, constitutes a unique minority on the Tammany Board. With Lawyer Coudert (see above) and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, 31, Harvard 1923, he leads the younger element in the State Republican Party. A new, popular member of the U. S. House of Representatives is Howard...