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...floor. As the clerk called the roll after a day of historic debate, the first woman Representative in U. S. history, and then the only woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin, sat silent in her seat instead of voting. Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative of U. S. womanhood, to cast her decision one way or the other. On the second roll call, Representative Rankin, with tears in her eyes, stood up to say: "I want to stand by my country but I cannot vote...
Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson professor of Physiology, is behind the move to bring Angna Entors, famed New York pantomimist, to Cambridge for the first time. Proceeds from the benefit recital will be used to aid the Spanish democracy...
Finds for the ambulance were raised here last spring by the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, headed by Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology in the Medical School. Last fall it was charged that the ambulance had not been sent to Spain by August and had been used in a Communist parade in New York...
Died. Charles Q. Eldredge, 92, world traveler, founder of the Eldredge Free Private Museum; after long illness; in Old Mystic, Conn. His museum contains 7,000 curiosities-among them Thomas A. Edison's first incandescent lamp, a hammer from Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky home, a cannon ball Mr. Eldredge firmly believed to be the first fired against Fort Sumter, an 8½-lb. petrified oyster, a piece of wood from the Confederate gunboat Merrimac. In 1933 he advertised for sale "a fully equipped museum, an honor to any town or city...
...Bonnet (called last year from his post as Ambassador at Washington to become Finance Minister) was promoted to be Minister of State and Financial Coordinator. He neatly defined his new job: "It has been said that in a neighboring country [Germany] it became necessary to choose between butter and cannon. Cannon were chosen. Here in France we want both butter and cannon. It is a difficult task...