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...Died. Cora Jane Flood, 73, daughter of the late famed James G. Flood, pioneer Californian; in San Francisco...
When women form themselves into clubs and have rules and meetings, no one can tell what they will do. What did Mrs. Cora B. Thomas, president of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Inc., do? She called up Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and invited her to be guest of honor at the Federation's luncheon last week. Then she wrote to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the Democratic nominee for Governor of New York, and asked her to make sure that Mrs. Smith had received the invitation...
...punster "the flophouse" because of the many failures it has housed, opened last week a piece called Guns. The first act was laid in a speakeasy in Manhattan, the second in a speakeasy in Chicago, the third at the Mexican border. Charlie O'Connor, Chicago racketeer, induced chaste Cora Chase to go with him to the Mexican-U.S. line, there to smuggle contraband Chinese into the states. Into the picture another racketeer, "The Colorado Special," thrust himself, looked gaga at Cora, she at him. He joined O'Connor in the alien-running scheme. What he turned...
...regular reader of your excellent magazine, I regard TIME most highly, and therefore I take exception to your article under the heading "People" concerning Mrs. Cora Bennett in your July 16 issue. The business of life insurance, today, needs no defender and the person who sells this service, whether it be man, woman or widow belongs in a higher classification than a peddler. . . . Mrs. Bennett is not the first widow who has been forced to sell the very commodity for lack of which her erstwhile husband makes it necessary for her to earn a living. In a day when...
...Cora Bennett, unable to live on her pension as widow of famed Air Pilot Floyd Bennett, peddles life insurance policies in Brooklyn. Last week, she sold her first policy. The purchaser: Charles H. Colvin, of the Pioneer Instrument Co., manufacturers of instruments used by Aviator Bennett flying to the North Pole...