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Last week, the Democrats of Connecticut, in search of a worthy opponent to Senator Hiram Bingham, offered the nomination to Arthur Twining Hadley, 70, President Emeritus of Yale University, who had been a Democrat before the days of Bryan and "free silver." He refused, said he agreed on the whole with the policies of the present administration...
Simultaneously, the report of the National Crime Commission was published. Headed by onetime Governor Hadley of Missouri, and composed of distinguished barristers like Judson Harmon, former Attorney General of the U. S., Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School, Edwin R. Keedy, a former Judge Advocate of the U. S. army, this gathering of greywigs spoke weightily. It recommended...
Whizzing New Englandwards from Hadley Field (New Brunswick, N. J.) the first New York-to-Boston plane stopped off with mail for Hartford, Conn. Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, chairman of the board of the company contracting for the new route, left his busy desk in the State House to follow the mail-carrier to Boston in another plane, where a trio of Navy pilots flew out to meet them...
Married. John Chipman Farrar, editor of The Bookman; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, crossword puzzle authoress; in Manhattan. Best man: Charles Phelps Taft 2nd. Ushers: S. V. Benet (poet-novelist); Philip Barry (playwright); F. T. Davison (wealthy politician); Artemus L. Gates (Yale football captain, World War hero); Hamilton Hadley (son of Yale University's President Emeritus); Robert A. Lovett (son of "Judge" Lovett, famed railway magnate...
...really 26 years since the young woman then at the head of Wellesley College's department of Biblical history and literature was called to South Hadley. She was a Connecticut girl who, after teaching at Wheaton Seminary, had fitted herself for collegiate teaching by five years' study at Brown University. How active she has been during the past quarter century outside the walls of Mount Holyoke, as well as within them, may be judged from the astonishing list of national committees, boards and trusteeships listed solidly under her name for the better part of a column...