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...also immaterial to Bolsheviks that the American Flag Association, impressed by Mrs. Davies' vigor in helping its drive against U. S. crime, asked Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to perform the act of dubbing her "The Lady of the Flag." Nor do the Russians care that Ambassador Davies was born so poor he had to help pay his way through the University of Wisconsin Law School by working as a physical instructor. The Bolsheviks seemed to like Ambassador & Mrs. Davies simply for their frank and friendly Capitalism-impressive to Russians who are always taken by "sincerity," their favorite virtue...
...illustrious medical school more than a century old, a football team that often tops the Southern Conference, an administration spunky enough to hold up its end of a feud with Kingfish Huey Long after refusing him an honorary degree. An all-round educator, President-Elect Harris was born in Georgia and went to Mercer University there, graduating in 1917, just in time to serve as a Wartime first lieutenant of infantry. After that he studied at Yale Law School, became a Doctor of Jurisprudence, reached his Tulane deanship in 1927. He established Tulane's nationally famed Law Review...
...could have been so happily qualified to do something about Cotton's prospect as was Claudius T. Murchison when he succeeded George Sloan as president of the Cotton-Textile Institute in November 1935. North Carolina-born, he understood King Cotton as only a Southerner can, knew well that the U. S. sells more raw cotton to Japan than to any country in the world. After teaching economics for 13 years at the University of North Carolina, he was appointed director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce by President Roosevelt in 1934. He sat in with State Department officials...
...rare flower of U. S. wealth is Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams, better known as Mrs. Harrison Williams, "best-dressed woman in the world." Born in Kentucky some 40 summers ago, she married first Henry J. Schlesinger of Milwaukee's iron-&-coke family, then Manhattan Banker James Irving Bush, finally and most successfully Harrison Williams, 23 years her elder, a quiet specialist in utility finance. To the adornment of their three houses-on upper Fifth Avenue at Bayville, L. I., at Palm Beach-Mrs. Williams has devoted her professional knowledge of porcelains, her flair for the paler sort...
...Born in India (1865), where his father was director of the Bombay Art School, little Rudyard was sent "home" to be educated. For nearly six unhappy, browbeaten years of his childhood he boarded with the family of a retired naval officer. Every year he escaped for a month into the happy company of his cousins, the Burne-Joneses, whose house was loud with jolly artistic atmosphere, portentous with such figures as William Morris and Robert Browning in the offing. When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went...