Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three men last week boarded the American Clipper-Ernest J. Swift, Wayne C. Taylor, James T. Nicholson-delegates of the American Red Cross going to Geneva to consult with the League of Red Cross Societies, to learn the plight of the hungry and naked children...
Behind all this nationwide activity sat the woman who has made the American Red Cross her lifework, for 35 years its driving force. In 1904 Clara Barton's Red Cross was gallant, revered, but loosely knit and fundless. That was the year the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House said to a young Washington society leader: "You've been appointed to the executive committee of the Red Cross...
Mabel Thorp Boardman had come back from Berlin, where her uncle was U. S. Minister. Unmarried, she was no longer a Victorian young lady but a Victorian spinster. The Red Cross job was just what she wanted. Imaginative, energetic, with a passion for detail, she got to work with a will. Fifteen years later she was national secretary, has kept the job ever since...
...death of Admiral Gary T. Grayson last year, she was urged to fill his position as national chairman. She had declined many times before, declined again. Her reason: "If there ever arises any doubt about the conduct of the Red Cross or its finances, investigators might be inclined to go easy with a woman. A man would have to accept a merciless inquiry.'' Norman H. Davis accepted the post, and Mabel Boardman remained secretary...
...monument in the Vosges marks the spot where, in 1914, Grand Rabbi Abraham Bloch was killed while bringing a cross to a dying French officer. Last week Grand Rabbi Maurice Liber, peacetime head of Paris' rabbinical school, now aumônier general for the army's Jews, combed France for Jewish chaplains. Entitled to 48, he could find only 26. The total enrollment of the rabbinical school-twelve youths-was mobilized in the army, but proved insufficiently trained to serve as aumƦniers...