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Since then Mme. Walska has been an ardent champion of the right of women to have legal residences separate from their husbands. Recently she went before the New York legislature with members of the National Women's party to advocate such a bill. Last week, the bill was voted on-and newspapers headlined "Walska's Pet Bill Passes." But it was Walska's pet bill in a deformed state. It gave New York women the right to establish separate legal residences for voting and office holding. For purposes of taxation they still...
Southern Pacific, William Crocker inherited the Crocker fortune and the First National Bank of San Francisco. As a second-generation tycoon, he is ultraconservative, correct, distant, cosmopolitan. Traditional even in his recreations, he is an ardent golfer...
...your ardent subscribers, you will appreciate the thrill I got in reading in the Jan. 28 issue of the Dog Derby to be held shortly from The Pas to Flin Flon...
...mind of the layman the subject of public ownership recalls to memory the Muscle Shoals controversy, Governor Smith's long and ardent battle for state control of various water power resources in New York, and the charges current last year that university professors were being privately paid on a large scale to spread propaganda against the idea of public ownership of utilities. In recent years these and other items relating to the same topic have frequently been featured as front page news in the newspapers. But more than an issue of the day the subject represents a phase...
...Croat Peasant party, which has demanded for Croatia-Dalmatia local autonomy and the status of a dominion (similar to Canada) under the Crown at Belgrade. It was the leader of this party, Stefan Raditch, who was assassinated in the parliamentary chamber last summer. The assassin, Deputy Punica Ratchitch, an ardent supporter of General Zivkovitch, has not yet been brought to trial...