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...Cities Service Co., who got an LL.D. from Temple University in his sickroom at Temple Hospital in Philadelphia. Most spectacular conjunction was the LL.D. bestowed on Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt by John Marshall College of Law in Jersey City, N. J. Greatest celebrity beat was scored by little Elmira College (Elmira, N. Y.), which gave its Litt.D.'s to Novelist Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama), Actress Helen Hayes and (by proxy) Actress Katharine Cornell...
...annual gathering (TIME, May 31) after paying its respects to its late benefactor, John D. Rockefeller (see p. 65), and declaring itself in favor of Government-fixed minimum wages, Government-limited incomes. Elsewhere African Methodists (Albany, N. Y.), United Lutherans (Manhattan), United Presbyterians (Chicago), Catho lic Daughters of America (Elmira, N. Y.), Knights of Columbus (Geneva, N. Y.), members of a Movement for World Christianity (Rochester, N. Y.), a Fellowship of Southern Churchmen (Nashville, Tenn.) deliberated, prayed, resolved. Most news worthy conventions of the week...
Undismayed by this slight miscalculation, and recognizing the fact that no other train would get to the fray in time, Owens turned to the aerial route. Catching the morning plane to New York and then carrying on to Elmira, Owens found he was still 40 miles from Ithaca. This distance was overcome by the opportune appearance of a friend...
...November 1934, Mrs. Catharine Ulrich Kabatt was told to take a two-year leave from her duties as an Elmira, N. Y., high-school mathematics teacher because she was expecting a baby. Two months after her blue-eyed son was born, she unsuccessfully demanded to be put back to work. Although she is now teaching in a grade school, her lawyer husband Anthony has carried through the New York courts a suit for the pay she would have earned during her compulsory leave. Last week he carried it for the second time to the U. S. Supreme Court, which again...
...course," added the witness thoughtfully, "if the Police Department see I don't make an honest living, it is all right." "Chowderhead" Cohen's police record was found to include 16 arrests for such offenses as receiving stolen goods, burglary and grand larceny; one sentence to Elmira, N. Y. Reformatory, one to a Federal penitentiary, two to Sing Sing...