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Died. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, 68, whose appointment as U.S. Minister to Denmark (1933-36) made her America's first woman diplomat; of a coronary thrombosis; in Copenhagen. Daughter of three-time Democratic Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan, at one time she taught public speaking, lectured on the Chautauqua...
Roosevelt had a poor opinion of Wilson ("a scholarly, acrid pacifist of much ability and few scruples") and a poorer one of the Democratic Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan ("an amiable, windy creature who knows almost nothing"). When World War I began. Roosevelt was an interventionist. He saw the...
His ballads-and a catchy Arthur Schwartz tune called "Good Time Charlie" which Miss Booth doesn't sing either--make up the rest of the score. She is stuck with scraps and reprises and a chorus of "In the Good Old Summertime." She does have a minute to herself in...
>When Kansas-born Mrs. Belle Jennings Benchley got a job as a bookkeeper in San Diego's Zoological Garden in 1925, she had nothing in mind but making a little money. She was 42, had been a housewife for 20 years, and had virtually no formal training. She liked...
Davis was nominated anyway-as a compromise candidate, on the 16th day and 103rd ballot, by a sweltering, weary, deadlocked Democratic convention. (Vicepresidential candidate: Charles W. Bryan, brother of William Jennings Bryan.) The predictable happened: W. J. Bryan deserted, La Follette started a third party, the Hearst press excoriated Davis...