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...handsome, strong of voice and character, Mrs. Leiter may be said to dominate Washington society. Born Juliette Williams of Washington, she married Capitalist Joseph Leiter of Chicago in 1908. Her mother, a Mrs. John R. Williams, whom she is said to resemble, still conducts a prosperous Washington realty business, specializing in bachelor apartments with nautical names such as "Anchorage," "Galleon," "Moorings," "Armada." * Mrs. Pearcy F. Eames of Manhattan and Mrs. E. S. Rochester of Washington. * For a description of how the U. S. Chamber's referendum on tax-cutting was taken in at least one city, see LETTERS...
...successfully commanded the "Red Army." Without him the Soviet Regime would have been swept away at its creation. He deserves well of any Russian Communist for much the same reasons that General George Washington deserves well of any U. S. Citizen who is glad not to have been born a British subject. How then is it possible that the Communist party has come to such a turning of the ways that Trotsky and 100 lesser great men must be left behind? ", Ihe matter is clear when two facts are remembered: Trotsky represents the doctrine that the Soviet state must never...
...waistcoat bought on issue some shares in the Bank of The Manhattan Company, then being organized. Almost a hundred years later, in 1893, the mustachioed directors made his grandson, Stephen Baker, president of the Bank of The Manhattan Company. In the same year a son, John Stewart Baker, was born to Stephen Baker. Last week, the directors of the Bank of The Manhattan Company met again. This time they elected John Stewart Baker president to succeed his father. For Stephen Baker they created the office of chairman of their board...
...pamplet Caligula." Indeed, few Germans could recall, last week, the full title of that pamphlet: "Caligula: A Study of Caesarean Insanity." When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace societies, he loomed, last week, as a distinguished "fraternizer" in the Nobel sense...
...progressing to an unimportant little climax. Occasional flashes of humor are obscured by the ponderous attempt to make the whole affair very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley, England- the "Hanbridge" of his familiar "Five Towns." With a limited education, he descended as a youth upon London and at 21 obtained a situation as a solicitor's clerk. Ten years later his first novel, A Man From the North, was published and, as he puts...