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...winter long the Senate Insurgents clamored for a special session of Congress in which to continue their discussion of such politico-economic topics as Depression, Unemployment, Power, Farm Relief, Tariff. They failed to get one. Therefore last week in the ballroom of Washington's exclusive Carlton Hotel they, their families and friends to the number of 200 held a special session of their own at which they succeeded in publicizing these subjects more widely, if more briefly, than they could have at the Capitol. Present were college professors, economists, labor leaders, farm representatives, editors, writers, lawyers, politicians, critics...
...Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manhattan having pledged the faith of its operators to enforce the Prohibition laws to the best of their abilities, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock abandoned padlock proceedings which had been begun after a raid last summer...
...Secretary of the Navy. Manhattan. Surrounded by liveried negroes, Mr. & Mrs. William Robertson Coe introduced Natalie Mai Coe to society in a setting designed to remind guests that one branch of the family had pre-Civil War Charleston, S. C., connections. The Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton was decked out to represent a southern garden, with a Colonial portico at one end. Additional southern atmosphere was furnished by the food (fried chicken, beaten biscuit) and entertainment (Tapdancer Bill Robinson). Guests numbered 300. Most spectacular Manhattan function was given, also in the Crystal Room, by Mr. & Mrs. Franklyn L. Hutton...
...does not seem possible that the expenses for operation will have increased to such an extent because of the transition from dormitory to House. The Ritz-Carlton would be preferable, for at least there are a few elevators! E. C. Morgan...
...initial board as it stands at present follows: Dr. Thomas Barbour '06. Dr. Henry B. Bigelow '01, director, Dr. William Bowie, Dr. E. G. Conklin '26, Mr. Newcomb Carlton, Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar '95, Dr. Frank R. Lillie, president. Dr. John C. Merriam, Mr. Seward D. Prosser, Mr. Lawrason Riggs, Jr. '15, treasurer, Mr. Elihu Root, Jr. '06, Dr. Harlow Shapley, Dr. T. O. Wayland Vaughan '93. The by-laws provide for an increase in the number of trustees up to twenty-four...