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...hopes of nearly 1,800 claimants to share in the $30,000,000 estate of the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, eccentric Manhattan spinster (TIME, April 6, 1931 et ante) went glimmering when Surrogate James A. Foley took steps to strike from the list all but 27 who claim fifth-degree (or closer) relationship. Of these 27 the fifth-degree relationship of nine has been conceded by the estate. Five of the nine sold their interests to 14 charitable institutions named as beneficiaries in the will for $7,500. cash down, $17,500 more if the will is broken...
...Harry Frank Guggenheim, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. The precise moment at which Mrs. Sabin, who says she originally favored Prohibition for her two sons' sake, decided to found the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform occurred during a Congressional hearing in 1928 at which Mrs. Ella Boole, the crafty old head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, spoke. "I represent," shouted Ella Boole, "the women of America!" "Well, lady," Mrs. Sabin recalls remarking to herself, "here's one woman you don't represent." As a nucleus for her organization, Mrs. Sabin called...
Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) Mrs. Henry Thomas (Ella McBride) Rainey, wife of the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives ...... LL.D. Miss R. Louise Fitch, dean of women, Cornell University ....... Litt.D. Miss Caroline Palmer, dean of women, Biblical Seminary, Manhattan ...... Litt.D...
...same name, presumably wives, daughters, sons, brothers or sisters on the payroll. ¶ Six members (Ohio's Brand, Louisiana's Fernandez, Texas' Garner, Texas' Williams, Minnesota's Christgau, Kentucky's Thatcher) with two namesakes hired. ¶ Democratic Floor Leader Rainey paying his wife Ella $208.33 per month as secretary. ¶ Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee paying Laura Collier $180 per month. ¶Chairman Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee paying Mary Vinson $116.66 per month...
...every evening on the Camel Quarter Hour between Morton Downey's ballads. The two called Tony's Scrap Books are anthologies of noble thoughts, snatches of homely humor, tributes to beauty, diligence, nature, perseverance, motherhood, home, etc. Some are from Edgar Albert Guest, Dr. Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin...