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First prize for costume went to five newswomen dressed as the Dionne quintuplets, with the Children's Bureau's new Chief Katharine Lenroot as their nurse. A battered Republican elephant took second; and the Three Little Pigs, one impersonated by Louis Howe's Secretary Margaret ("Rabbit") Durand were third...
...Presidential appointment of the week: Katharine F. Lenroot, daughter of one-time Republican Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin and assistant chief of the Labor Department's Children's Bureau since 1922; to be the Bureau's chief vice Grace Abbott, resigned...
...TIME, Oct. 28), John A. Kennedy of Universal News Service (Hearst) was awarded the Chester D. Pugsley prize of $1,000. Second prize went to Paul R. Mallon of the United Press who disclosed the Senate's secret roll call on the confirmation of onetime Senator Irvine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin, as a judge in the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals...
Senator Couzens of Michigan inadvertently let out a Senate secret when he asked why the Rules Committee did not call Senators who had left the executive session to telephone Mr. Lenroot for promptings on how best to meet the attack against...
Vastly vexed was the Associated Press, chief rival of the U. P. Its Washington chief protested to the Senate, claiming the right to publish executive session proceedings, implying that the United Press report of the Lenroot poll was not accurate. The only inaccuracy formally complained of had to do with two absent Senators. Nevertheless the A. P., in self defense, kept belittling its rival's scoop. This not-very-sporting A. P. letter brought mumbles of derision from Senators...