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...behest of Oklahoma clubwomen, the State Legislature passed a bill declaring the redbud the State's official tree. One clubwoman, however, believed that the tree on which Judas hanged himself was no tree for Oklahoma. She, Mrs. Roberta Lawson of Tulsa, first vice president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, so telegraphed last week to Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland, who had not signed the bill...
...Portland, Ore., "The Rose City," clubwomen pinned yellow roses on delegates to the Northwest Association of Sheriffs and Police, innocently aroused a full-sized rumpus among a contingent of visiting Mexicans. Explained their interpreter: In Mexico a yellow rose is worn to announce a broken engagement...
...night Mrs. Roosevelt drove out to address the Faculty Women's Club of Howard University (Negro). The dusky clubwomen had to threaten to call the police to keep Negro newshawks and cameramen from crashing the party. In the confusion Mrs. Roosevelt found herself alone on the street after the affair. Gallantly Negro Edgar C. Brown, CCC press-agent who has a bushy Vandyke beard, squired her to the White House...
...Vernon Hawthorne, wired President Roosevelt that Sholtz was an "unworthy official, having lost the respect of the people." To Governor Sholtz was sent a stinging, 300-word rebuke: "The highest office . . . was not handed you to use for . . . vindictive purposes or to carry out secret . . . programs." Speakers-mostly clubwomen and attorneys-loudly whanged their Governor. When ousted Attorney Hawthorne was introduced as "the next Governor of Florida," the crowd yelled lustily...
Chosen last week by the clubwomen and educators who compose the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures as the ten most entertaining pictures of 1934, were...