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...Woman's Christian Temperance Union, spoke. "I represent," shouted Ella Boole, "the women of America!" "Well, lady," Mrs. Sabin recalls remarking to herself, "here's one woman you don't represent." As a nucleus for her organization, Mrs. Sabin called upon Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, Mrs. Coffin Van Rensselaer, insurgent Miss Wetmore and Mrs. Moore. The W. O. N. P. R. was founded in May 1929 at Chicago. Program- The W. O. N. P. R. program has followed that of the longtime Dry policy: trying to get men in Congress and the White House who will support...
Last week 86 eminent persons including Edsel Ford, John Hays Hammond, William Green, Howard Earle Coffin, August Heckscher, Clark Howell, Henry Stevens, Edward F. Hutton, William Vincent Griffin, Jesse Isidor Straus and Elon Huntington Hooker petitioned President Hoover to revive the Council of National Defense. They argued that a dictatorship was the way out of Depression. President Hoover promptly rejected their request. He felt that the C. 0. N. D. was only an advisory war body and that the Cabinet, Federal Reserve Board, Farm Board and Reconstruction Finance Corp. were now "the most effective economic council that could be devised...
...apology for not knowing an answer, the deaf professor praised him: "Your answer is correct, Mr. Young." In 1894 he went, to Boston University, studied law. For years he practiced law, specializing in public utilities, until in 1912 he caught the attention of General Electric's President Charles Coffin. As head of the law department he had plenty of practice in his specialty: negotiation by mutual compromise. Negotiator Young was so adept, so tactful that a gift to Belgian Emile Francqui of one of his prize Van Hornesville bulls contributed to the successful termination of the 1929 Reparations conference...
...matter of routine the "Old Fox" was decorated posthumously by Emperor Hirohito with the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun and Paulownia. His frail corpse, enclosed in the austere white pine coffin dictated by Japanese custom, lay in the hall of his official residence where he was shot down, while 500 officials, including representatives of all parties, paid their formal respects, pronounced fulsome eulogies. That evening the body was cremated. Next day part of the ashes were sent to Okayama, the rest interred at Tokyo...
...Cavalry. In a funeral oration he once said: "We know not whether the grave is the end of this life or the door to another; whether if this existence is our night time there is not somewhere else a dawn. Every cradle asks us 'Whence?' And every coffin 'Whither?' And again we are face to face with the great mystery that shrouds this world. Over the desert of death the sphinx gazes forever, but never speaks...