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...Eighth Biennial Conference of the Young Women's Christian Association, in Manhattan. This was a truly international affair, in which women from all over the world?white, saffron, café-au-lait?took part. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, came unexpectedly from Washington to deliver an address, at the instance of Mrs. Frederick Paist, his sister and President of the national organization. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., celebrated the convention by giving an international house-party for a number of delegates?including Countess Elsa Bernadotte, niece of the King of Denmark, and Mrs. H. C. Mei, head...
...United Mine Workers of America opened their biennial convention at Indianapolis, and the public turned an interested ear to find out whether there would be a soft coal strike in the coming Spring. The question was not definitely decided in the first week's session. But in the repeated triumphs of President John L. Lewis, there were indications of "no strike...
...ninth biennial exhibition of con temporary American paintings, current at the Corcoran Galleries, Washington, D. C., until Jan. 20, shows 383 pictures by 286 artists. A large daily attendance of national capital distinction shows critical appreciation of a display whose moderately conservative character is indicated by the names of the Clark prize winners, respectively: George Bellows, Charles W. Hawthorne, Maurice B. Prendergast, John Noble...
...biennial contest for the distinction of being "baby" of Congress was apparently won for this session by Representative Clarence McLeod of Detroit...
...Rome, the U. S. is represented for the first time in a separate section at the Second Biennial Exposition of Fine Arts, which opened in the Palazzo di Belli Arti. The American High Commissioner is Frederick E. Triebel, sculptor, assisted by Blashfield, French, MacMonnies, Barnard, Pennell, Dielman, Hassam, Melchers and other representative artists...