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...Died. Cora Hind, 81, oldest newspaperwoman in Canada, famed forecaster of grain crops; in Winnipeg...
...Grain Exchange observed two minutes' silence. Canadian public officials spoke and many a Western wheat farmer wrote his heartfelt tribute. "One of the greatest of Canadian women," said Prime Minister Mackenzie King. These words were the last homage to Ella Cora Hind, agricultural expert of the Winnipeg Free Press, who died last week at 81, still a working newspaperwoman...
...Cora Hind was known wherever wheat is grown in the Western world. Her uncanny accuracy in estimating the yield of Canada's wheatland made her final figures gospel in the world's exchanges. Once (1909) she missed by only one-half of one percent on a 118,719,000-bu. crop. From 1904 until 1933 she failed only twice to make a guess: in 1912, which was too wet for even a rough estimate; in 1926, when...
Chief criticism of Frances Cora ("Ma") Perkins when she first took office, eight years ago, was that she wore skirts and a tricorn bonnet, instead of trousers and a derby. Boston-born, Mount Holyoke-bred, she had a record of passionate social-welfare work and conscientious service to New York as a member of industrial boards and as the State's industrial commissioner. She had been responsible for progressive State legislation. She had swept up many dirty corners. First thing she did when she walked into her musty old office in Washington was to call for a dustcloth...
...where his father ran a haberdashery shop, Benny fiddled with juvenile orchestras, played for dances and firemen's balls. Proud hope of his family in those early years was that Benny would develop into a concert violinist. Instead he teamed at 17 with a vaudeville pianist named Cora Salisbury in an act called "From Grand Opera to Ragtime." As part of his business in this turn (for which he got $15 a week), Benny sawed away with the little finger of his bow hand elegantly extended, pretended to be mesmerized by its motion back & forth. On the vaudeville circuit...