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Leader of the group was Waldo Frank. Notably absent from the entourage was Author Dos Passes, who was off in Mexico. Corliss Lamont, philosophy professor at Columbia University and son of Banker Thomas William Lamont, said he had expected to go along but was too busy. However, Mr. Frank's party mustered Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, literary critic; Editor Malcolm Cowley of the New Republic; drowsey-eyed Mary Heaton Vorse who reports labor troubles better than she writes novels; Playwright Harold Hickerson; Charles Walker, admired for a book called Steel; a 60-year-old Greenwich Village doctor named Elsie Reed Mitchell...
...birthday. From the Yard Mr. Lament could not see the modern, red-brick Lament Infirmary, whose crack contagious ward is an echo of the time Mr. Lamont had scarlet fever at Exeter.* But he could see the modest basement offices of the school paper, the Exonian, where his sons, Corliss and Austin ("Egg"), spent much of their time while at Exeter. His reminiscing over, Mr. Lamont went to the new Thompson baseball cage and presided over an alumni luncheon, where he read a letter of congratulation from President Hoover and where another Morgan man talked: Vernon Munroe, president of Exeter...
...nine years paid its Widener Library scrubwomen but 35¢ an hour, whereas the legal minimum wage was 37¢. The Treasurer of Harvard University appealed to the State Legislature, pleading that the women were given a 20-minute rest period, not docked for it. Last March, led by Corliss Lament, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, 52 Harvard alumni wrote an open letter to the University, asking that the women be paid 2¢ per hour back wages over the whole period. Harvard refused. Alumnus Lamont then organized the Harvard Scrubwomen Fund, raised $3,880, portioned it out last Christmas...
...Boston and Cambridge public have frequently found occasion to look upon the product with wide-eyed horror. The present irritation was caused by a drawing in the last issue depicting the now famous scrub women engaged in staging a Bacchanalia on the proceeds of the bonus supplied by Corliss Lamont and his associates...
...concluding chapter of the case of the Widener scrubwomen, which has had wide publicity since early last spring, will be written on Christmas Day, when a committee headed by Corliss Lamont '24 will give the women $3880 which they claim the University owes them for back...