Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weak story and expensively featureless directing. The dusty hills and mountains of darkest Tibet are spectacular but they are not, one suspects, very far far from Southern California. Actress Gilda Gray was born in Poland to a poor man named Michelsky. He named his daughter Mariana, emigrated to New Jersey, worked hard in a packing plant. Mariana grew up to marry a bartender who was also a bad character; when she left him, she got a job at $8 a week singing in sawdust floored saloons. From that point her story is merely the brief, trite, magnificent U. S. epic...
...following: James Wolcott Wadsworth, onetime (1915-27) U. S. Senator from New York; Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist, and Charles Hamilton Sabin, Manhattan banker; Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Detroit lawyer-philanthropist; Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware industrialist-educator; Benedict Crowell, Cleveland engineer; Senators Walter Evens Edge of New Jersey and William Cabell Bruce of Maryland; Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland; and many another...
...male voices upraised last week, it was virtually assured that another woman will enter Congress soon. At present there are four U. S. Congresswomen-Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn of California, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Mrs. John W. Langley of Kentucky, Mrs. Mary P. Norton of New Jersey. The new & likely candidate is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter and widow of politicians, who wittily copied President Coolidge and "chose" to run for Republican Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois. The male voices which last week boomed Mrs. McCormick's nomination in the primary next spring and her election next...
...family life, last week used the summer's experience to illustrate that corporations as well as individuals must have character training. He spoke at the sixth annual banquet of the Twenty-six Broadway Club, composed of employes and executives of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Chairman George H. Jones and President Walter Clark Teagle of the corporation spoke; Mrs. Rockefeller sat at the dinner table...
...Amherst College, was chosen as the winner of the Rhodes Scholarship that is awarded annually to a representative of the state of Massachusetts, it was announced last night by W. C. Greene, Chairman of the board of Tutors in the Division of Ancient Languages. Scott comes from Arlington, New Jersey, and is the president of the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter at Amherst, captain of the track team, and is president of the "Masquers", a dramatic organization...