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Diplomatist Moffat, plump, pleasant, pompous, is no nobody. He is the socialite scion of the three venerable Manhattan families whose names he bears, a Harvard graduate, a son-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Joseph Clark Grew. Succeeding Laura Harlan as social secretary to the White House in the Coolidge Administration, he held that delicate post until its duties were transferred to a division of protocol in the state department. Attaché Moffat's most important previous diplomatic work was with the U. S. Legation in Warsaw during Soviet Russia's brief attempt to conquer Poland...
...Cutter. Most of the existing classifications of such material were developed before business came to be conceived of as a science or a field of study, and before any large literature had been developed in that province. The new classification, for which financial support is being supplied by the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation, is being prepared with the collaboration of librarians in charge of special business material, such as those in libraries of New York banking institutions...
...That Laura J. Moody, 18, whose family physician pronounced her spinal cure "a miracle," had already been discharged from Boston City hospital. Hospital officials said: "The majority of her trouble was hysteria...
...Hope, under whom the President purposes to consolidate all Prohibition activities. The appointment of Gustav Aaron Youngquist. Minnesota's Attorney-General, to be U. S. Assistant Attorney-General in charge of Prohibition & Taxation, had hardly reached St. Paul before Sire Volstead's daughter, Mrs. Laura Volstead Lomen, hurried to Mr. Youngquist's office to be the first to congratulate him, to express her father's pleasure...
...companion piece, "Hold Your Man", the less said about this, the better. Laura La Plante holds forth for six reels in a movie devoid of plot, acting, or any other reedeeming feature, and the aggregate is merely a waste of good film...