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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Judah never before held public office higher than a seat in the Illinois assembly. He has never felt that his Republican sentiments required him to admire Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who labeled Mr. Judah a "silk sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee...
...National Cash Register family (Dayton, Ohio). The Judahs will have a month or so to get settled in Havana. Then will come the pan-American conference, at which the new ambassador will be, ex officio, a member of the U. S. delegation and host of his colleagues, the latter perhaps including President Coolidge...
...sympathetic but hesitant. He did not appear to have the soft coal situation at his executive fingertips. He said he would consult Secretary of Labor Davis and urged his callers to do likewise. He said he could not very well call a conference of Labor and operators without the latter signifying their willingness. He lacked authority to intervene unasked...
...Although she is the mother of King Michael (Mihai), she ranks below his grandmother, Dowager Queen Marie, because the latter has been a reigning sovereign, while Princess Helene...
...slightly crippled by Bishop Manning's broadside, and is soon to approach the rostrum under the protection of the astute Bertrand Russell. While companionate marriage gropes for a footing midway between the antipodal theories of Trial Marriage and the customary timeworn marriage, Mr. Adams is bolstering up the latter against the radicalism of the former. A sabbatical system offers a field of compromise between extremes. Whatever may be the solution, these suggestions are recognizant not only of the fact that divorce maintains a high batting average but also that, as Havelock Ellis says, marriage is made...