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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughter Alice (wife of Speaker Nicholas Long-worth), to watch; and the late Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon's daughter, Miss Helen Cannon of Danville, 111., "to be very quiet." Miss Cannon arrived early, to be the guest of Mrs. Jacob L. Loose (Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co...
...switched to and succeeded in public utilities, switched to and dazzled the oldsters in politics (he managed McKinley's Illinois campaign for Mark Hanna), switched to banking and excelled at that (U. S. Comptroller of Currency, 1897-1902; founder and head of the Central Union Trust Co.; urged by Andrew Mellon in 1920 for Secretary of the Treasury). He did the War purchasing for his boyhood friend, General Pershing; then straightened out the Federal Budget system; then devised the plan for Germany's reparations and shared (with Sir Austen Chamberlain) a Nobel Peace Prize...
...Victor Talking Machine Co. last week offered $40,000 in prizes for musical compositions by U. S. citizens. It will pay $25,000 for the piece most suitable to be played by a symphony orchestra, $10,000 and $5,000 for the best and second best piece suitable for performance by a dance orchestra...
...most original piece of creative writing, and also for the best essay on "Women of Dr. Johnson's Time," Anne Morrow of the senior class won two prizes at Smith College. She is the daughter of a man who was a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., is now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, and in whose person both business and politics are flattered since he is constantly spoken of as prospective president of some great university: Dwight Whitney Morrow. His elder daughter, Elizabeth, no literary laggard, teaches in the Englewood, N. J., high school, having been graduated from...
Divorced. Harvey Arthur Lee, 35, retired British dealer in antiques; by Nora McMullen Lee, 49, of Litchfield, Conn., onetime wife of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, daughter of an owner of the Guinness Brewing Co. of Dublin; for failure to provide. Mr. Lee's petition charging mental cruelty had been denied. In 1910 Mr. Mellon, 26 years her senior, sued for divorce. Children of the Mellon-McMullen marriage are Ailsa, who married David K. E. Bruce in 1927 and Paul, popular Yale student...