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...Chicago last week the Society for the Improvement of Children's Programs was hopefully suggesting to neighbors' boys & girls that Bob Becker's Dog Chats and the Singing Lady are as entertaining as the thunderous radio exploits of Buck Rogers. In Columbus, Ohio the members of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and the Institute for Education by Radio met in joint convention to wring their hands over the bloody adventures of Dick Tracy, the struggles of Little Orphan Annie, the blood-curdling mysteries of Chandn the Magician. Burden of the complaint was that Junior...
...Roosevelt not to "idly enjoy the vicarious fortitudes of ancestors long laid to rest" than they got down to the business of electioneering for officers. Favorite candidate to succeed short, full-bosomed Mrs. Russell William Magna as President-General was her Smith College classmate, tall, handsome Mrs. William A. Becker of New Jersey. In a rash moment Mrs. Becker once endorsed The Red Network, a list of such "radicals" as Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Frances Perkins, Donald Richberg. That endorsement, although later retracted, was enough to make many a Daughter turn to the comparatively liberal candidacy of Mrs. Flora Myers...
First off, the candidates for President-General tested their strength by rival teas. Mrs. Becker, with Mrs. Magna to help her, served ice cream, cake and punch at the Mayflower Hotel, drew 3,000 Daughters and friends. At the Willard, Mrs. Gillentine, serving only lemonade, drew a scant 2,000 but outdid her rival with a string of celebrities including Speaker of the House Joseph Wellington Byrns and his wife...
...third day Gillentine supporters brought delegates to their feet in a rising vote for a big Army & Navy. On the fourth day the Daughters trooped excitedly to the polls, cast their ballots for President-General. The winner: Mrs. Becker, 1,436-to-619. Delighted Mrs. Magna embraced her classmate, kissed her for cameramen...
...brainless clowning. For professor I nominate the heeler who wrote the CRIMSON editorial board. I have failed. It is impossible to carry the jest further than you have already carried it in yesterday's editorial. The system of elections that has chosen for Ivy Orator such men as Loftus Becker, Stephen Stackpole, and Vincent Palmer needs no improvements. W. H. Lewis...