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William Z. Ripley, professor of economics at Harvard, emeritus, and author of the preliminary plan for consolidation of the nation's railroad systems, has left Cambridge to confer with President Hoover. Professor Ripley, in an article published in World's Work today, states that consolidation in trunk-line territory is necessary if railroads are to continue to operate. It is understood that his conference with President Hoover had to do with his railroad merger plan...
...drink, a new art gallery blossomed last week on Manhattan's artiest street, East 57th, with an opening exhibition that snapped one more spat-button of respectability on the artistic insurgents of 1918: Derain, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse. Grizzle-chinned Henri Matisse was present in person to confer a Parisian benediction. Owner and patron of the gallery was beauteous Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, onetime daughter-in-law of Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, present wife of Banker-Sportsman William Averell Harriman. The Marie Harriman Gallery will probably never feel that fear of financial disaster which hangs like a permanent...
Through the courtesy of House Master J. L. Coolidge, Hurrey will be the guest of Lowell House while on his visit to this metropolitan district when he will confer with workers among students at the more important institutions...
...Democratic Representative from the 5th District of North Carolina, oldest member and only Civil War veteran in Congress; the 22nd member of the present Congress to die; of apoplexy, at Mount Alto Hospital in Washington. Before the Civil War, Stedman persuaded authorities of the University of North Carolina to confer his degree three months early so that he could join the Confederate Army before fighting began. With Lee's army he was thrice wounded. He entered Congress when he was 69. All his life he bathed once or twice, frequently three times, per day, never was ill until the past...
...Admiral Hughes last week kicked himself down a step in naval rating to rear admiral. Last week the Navy Department announced the appointment of a new full admiral to take command of the Fleet: Rear Admiral John Valentine Chase, whilom member of the Navy General Board, who plans to confer over the Treaty Navy with his new chief before hoisting his four-starred flag above the flagship Texas...