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...Receiving for the Central Committee a red banner presented by Cleveland Workers, Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor, 71, announced: "I hope to meet you in Washington at the first Soviet Congress...
...most touching tributes to the high ideals which American women maintain was demonstrated yesterday in New York at a meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Under the leadership of their world president, Mrs. Ella A. Boole, who looked charming in a subdued black silk dress and a black hat with the white badge of the organization affixed to her shoulder, these courageous women planned a new crusade to root out the many evils which have flocked in with the Democrats and the Depression. Chief among these, of course, is the return of the nefarious liquor traffic...
...philosophical and economic aspects of Russia are largely omitted; except for a digression on the extent of the country's natural resources and a sketchy resume of the Five Year Plan, the book keeps pretty closely to the "human relations' side of it, in many ways resembling very strikingly Ella Winter's "Red Virtue." It scope ranges from anecdotes of peasant life and collective struggles through a discussion of morality, prostitution, art, jails, the army and other points to a travelogue of Siberia and an essay on world revolution...
...despite its unacademic style and journalistic presentation, is an authoritative study of Russia up to the fall of 1933. These who have read Hindus's previous books will find, perhaps, considerable repetition of subject-matter; but each month calls for a new interpretation of this quickly-changing country. As Ella Winter never tires of repeating, every Russian "fact" should have a date attached; tomorrow it may be no fact at all, or at least a greatly altered one. It there are to be successors to "The Great Offensive" in years to come, it would be well for them to retain...
Died. Tobey, 8, "richest dog in the world." last of the succession of poodles, all named Tobey, owned by the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel; at the hands of a veterinary; in the ancestral Wendel home at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. One reason why Ella, last of the eccentric Wendel spinsters, never sold the valuable lot on which the old house reared its red-brick ugliness, was the counsel of her grandfather: Buy, never sell. A more important reason, to her, was that the Tobeys might have a yard to play in. She died two years...