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...Smith, Anatomist Dr. Florence Reno Sabin, New York Times Foreign Correspondent & Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. On the list for the second time: Correspondent Marguerite Higgins. Among those who made it for the first time: Social Worker Katharine Lenroot, Physicist Lise Meitner, Princess Elizabeth, Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg, Actress Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday, Mrs. Ogden Reid, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune...
Died. Irvine Luther Lenroot, 79, onetime G.O.P. Congressman (1909-18) and Senator (1918-27) from Wisconsin; in Washington. Lenroot missed becoming the 29th U.S. President when the 1920 Republican Convention, which had seemed about set to nominate him as Warren Harding's running mate, settled on Calvin Coolidge instead...
...Secret Servicemen, now thronged an unusual number of civilians, some of them concerned only indirectly with the war. In went three Girl Scouts for the President's thanks for the 15,340,000 hours of service the Scouts had given since Pearl Harbor (see cut); in went Katharine Lenroot of the Children's Bureau and twelve 'teenagers to watch the President sign a Child Health Day Proclamation (May 1); in went Governor Charles Harwood of the Virgin Islands; Postmaster General Frank Walker; and New York Attorney Louis B. Wehle, longtime friend of the President...
...Children's Bureau estimated that twice as many boys & girls between 14 and 18 went to work in 1941 as in 1940 (the Bureau gave work certificates to 500,000), said the number mounted rapidly in 1942. Bureau Head Katharine F. Lenroot was plainly worried lest the exodus from school be too great...
...still has an old photograph inscribed. 'To my old side kick," signed "Franklin Roosevelt." He declined the job of Ambassador to Russia, or to Italy, or of Governor General of the Philippines, and elected in 1918 to run for Senator in Wisconsin. He was beaten by Republican Irvine Lenroot by a bare 2,500. So he returned to Washington to be a corporation lawyer (expert on the anti-trust laws) and "private diplomat...