Word: calvins
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Imposed Deadline. A city of 182,000 and the birthplace of Jean Jacques Rousseau, as well as of the Red Cross, Geneva got into the conference business early. During the 16th century, under Reformer John Calvin, Geneva was the Protestant Rome. In 1872 Geneva's city hall was the headquarters of a five-man commission that arbitrated a dispute between Britain and the U.S. over the damages caused by the British-built Confederate raider Alabama. The luckless League of Nations was established in Geneva in 1920. After the League was erased by World War II, the United Nations took...
Devoted Presidents. In 1935 he gave up the title of sports editor to concentrate on the column "This Morning," which he had been writing for seven years. Its devoted readership has included every U.S. President since Calvin Coolidge. Dwight Eisenhower, who on occasion boasted that he never read the liberal-leaning Washington Post, admitted that he always read the Post's Povich. The brothers Kennedy cull Povich columns for anecdotes useful on the sports-conscious New Frontier...
ROBERT M. CALVIN Chicago...
Michigan's Lenore LaFount Romney, 52, daughter of a federal radio commissioner under Calvin Coolidge. When Lenore moved to New York to study acting, George Romney, then working in Washington, courted her on weekends. By 1930, she was a bit player for MGM, appeared in movies with Greta Garbo and Jean Harlow. She was on the verge of signing a three-year contract-but George signed her up first. They were married in 1931, and Lenore is now the mother of four. When she gets settled in the Governor's mansion, Lenore wants to make "a real breakthrough...
...Keppel, the Harvard School of Education's enrollment has risen nearly threefold to 657, its budget tenfold to $3,063,000. Highly influential, the school now boasts as alumni the state commissioners of education in New York and Massachusetts, New York City's newly appointed School Superintendent Calvin E. Gross (who was picked largely on Keppel's recommendation), and last year's head of the White House nursery school, who may have put in a good word about her old dean...