Word: eleanors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Mrs. August Belmont (Eleanor Robson), famed philanthropist, onetime actress (1897-1910), called a conference to discuss nurses and nursing. Dr. May Ayres Burgess, Director of the Grading Committee of Nursing Schools, flayed the type of girl now entering the profession. "The minimum educational standards are low," she stated. "New York State is a serious offender. The legal requirement is one year of high school, which is lower than the requirement placed by most department stores or business houses for the education of their clerks, typists and saleswomen. . . . The time has come for raising the quality of women admitted into...
Also last week Hero Lindbergh was taken for a ride above Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, in a Loening amphibian plane piloted by Miss Eleanor Hoyt, 16-year-old daughter of Broker Richard R. Hoyt...
Dutchess County, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in 1882, is very much "upstate," just south of Albany. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a fifth cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt and he married Theodore Roosevelt's niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He is, conspicuously, the man that Theodore Roosevelt the younger never became. Tall, with a chiselled countenance, blue eyes, curling light hair, he has exercised a vigorous public spirit ever since, as editor of the Harvard Crimson, he demanded and demanded and obtained fire escapes for Harvard's dormitories. He went into the New York Senate in 1910 after practicing...
Married. Howard Joseph Sachs, Manhattan banker & director (department stores, realty, silk); to Eleanor Burtis Saxe, staff-member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; on Coates Island, Lake Champlain...
...Engaged. Eleanor Donnelley, daughter of Reuben H. Donnelley (telephone books); to the Rev. Calvin Pardee Erdman, Professor of Biblical Literature at Occidental College, son of famed Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, of Princeton...