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...late Tsarina of Russia. Where Mme Soloviev was taming animals last week the Labor Department did not know. Continuing his financial retrenchment, William Randolph Hearst sold over $100,000 worth of art treasures including Chippendale chairs. Georgian beds, silverware of the Charles II and William III periods. Purchaser: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who will place them in the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg, Va., famed historical spot he is restoring...
...last week scheduled public hearings to question Morgan Partners George Whitney, Francis Bartow and Harry Davison on their knowledge of Richard Whitney's failure. Called to the stand meanwhile was Dick Whitney's predecessor as president of the Exchange, Edward H. H. Simmons, who testified that he knew last November that Dick Whitney had been using the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund improperly but had not reported it to his fellow Exchange governors because George Whitney made good the deficit. Asked if he considered this the full measure of his duty, he remarked: "It is easy...
Leader of the anti-R. O. T. C. group was Mrs. Mary Davison Bradford, 82, daughter of a Wisconsin pioneer and onetime superintendent of Kenosha's schools. Mrs. Bradford has written a salty, widely-read autobiography,* is equally famed in Kenosha for her knitting. Clicking her knitting needles faster & faster, Mrs. Bradford marshaled her troops. When Legionnaires got 275 high-school students to sign a petition asking for R. O. T. C., Mrs. Bradford's group got a larger number to petition the Board of Education for a course in hog-calling. One day, to the astonishment...
From their lofty offices in the highest building of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, the Rockefeller Foundation looks down on great liners moored in the Hudson River. Among the ships on which the Foundation's chairman, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., and its president, Raymond Elaine Fosdick, looked last week were the German steamers Deutschland and Columbus, the Italian Rex. Fresh from the printer was the opinion of the governments symbolized by those ships, which President Fosdick was about to deliver to Mr. Rockefeller and the other 18 trustees of the $150,000,000 philanthropic Foundation. Wrote this great almoner...
Today at ten o'clock the Vagabond will go over to the Music Building to listen to Dr. Davison lecture on Wagner...