Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Ray Long published in Cosmopolitan the letters of Miss Edith Benham, social secretary to President Woodrow Wilson and his second wife, written to her fiance Rear Admiral James M. Helm. Social Secretary Benham reported almost daily to her Admiral the progress of the Paris Peace Conference as she observed it from the Wilson's Paris headquarters, the ornate Bischoffsheim house at 11 Place des Etats Unis...
...highly the Herald Tribune values its new feature was indicated last week when it printed the announcemen; not as an advertisement but as a lengthy front-page news story. Part of the news was that Mr. Coolidge's career as an occasional contributor to Hearst's Cosmopolitan is, "for at least a year," at an end; in that time he may write nothing for publication other than his daily "piece" of 150 to 200 words in the Herald Tribune...
Reading your Judiciary in TIME, Feb. 24, about appointment of and opposition to Mr. Hughes for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, reminded me that I have in my library Cosmopolitan magazine of 20 years ago, copy for November 1910, with an article "Will Hughes Make Good," by Alfred Henry Lewis. Looks like Mr. Lewis was amusing himself, writing ten pages of philippics specially for Mr. Hughes. Started from cradle, when "Baby Hughes" was born in Glens Falls in the State of New York and the parents took baby Hughes to church, where he was baptized "Charles Evans...
Cause: Amos W. Shafer. Effect: closing by State Banking Department of Cincinnati's Cosmopolitan Bank & Trust Co. Mr. Shafer broke the bank singlehanded. As district manager of Henry L. Doherty & Co., Cities Service specialists, he used the firm's account to make away with $632,000, which was within $14,000 of the bank's capitalization...
President Hoover repeated this formula once again last week to set in motion his 13th Presidential commission. Its subject: the merchant marine. The occasion: a deep-rooted controversy within the U. S. Shipping Board over the sale of the Government-owned Black Diamond and Cosmopolitan trans-Atlantic freight-lines. For more than a year disposal of these services has been delayed while the two operating companies and the U. S. lines wrangled with the Shipping Board over purchase bids. The President said commission No. 13 would also supervise the financing and building by U. S. lines of two new Leviathan...