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Divorced. By Mrs. Alice Meyer Rodgers, daughter of the late George Von Lengerke Meyer, Postmaster general under President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy under President Taft; Com-mander Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers, U. S. N.; in Paris...
Elections, Resolutions. To be commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, succeeding U. S. Senator Rice W. Means of Colorado, was elected John J. Garrity of Chicago. Other officers elected: W. L. Grayson, vice com-mander-in-chief; Peter O'Shea, surgeon general; Allen P. Wilson, chaplain in chief...
Significance. Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal reduced to insignificance the offshoot Nationalist regime at Nanking which Chiang had headed* placing the parent nationalist regime at Hankow once more in com plete mastery of nationalist affairs. Nominally the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang intervened in the interest of Hankow; but his reputation for treachery is such that Chinese thought that he would soon attempt to seize the whole Nationalist territory himself...
...Ross likes to term him, received her in his private residence at Hamilton Terrace in the northwest part of London. Few U. S. visitors have had the privilege of entering his cheery reception room, with its large windows, its creamy-tinted walls, etchings, photographs. Journalist Betty Ross made herself com fortable there; found it "a pleasure to listen to the fine flow of phrase, apart from the depth of their content, as they fall from the lips of the Chief Rabbi. His diction is graceful, his voice pleasant as it starts in moderate tones and becomes deeper and more intense...
...longing for "finer things." This document of her callow years is marred by an overdose of sentimental estheticism and a dismaying lack of humor. She seems a little too sure that she was an unusual little girl. When, in school, "we were given the choice of three subjects for com position: 'The Autobiography of a Weathercock,' 'A Day in the Country,' and 'What I would do with Five Pounds.' I thought them much better subjects than usual, and immediately felt ideas pouring into my head for 'The Weathercock.' Yes, there...