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Page 7 March 19 issue of TIME states "Miles Poindexter Spokane, of the City of SEATTLE." . . . Spokane, the City of Sunshine and power, is proud to claim Miles Poindexter as one of its most illustrious citizens. MAJOR G. S. CLARKE, U. S. A. Syracuse...
Without parading their identity, Major John A. Warner and his wife, Mrs. Emily Smith Warner of Albany, N. Y., joined a group of 500 other pilgrims at the Vatican, and knelt and kissed the hand of Pius XI. Mrs. Warner's father, in whose presidential chances the Vatican is reported to have no interest, was pleased to hear of his daughter's devoutness and, when urged to comment, gently turned the conversation aside, into travel. "Distance doesn't mean much to the younger generation," said Governor Smith. "Here am I, past fifty, and it was only...
Will "Cities' Rights" supplant the old-time "States' Rights" doctrine as a major political and economic issue? Charles Edward Merriam, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, Republican candidate in 1911 for Mayor of Chicago, suggested the question by an address at the 150th convocation of the University of Chicago last week...
Last week another woman, name of Peggy Cleary, applied for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. Apparently she has the two major qualifications for admission to the most expensive and least exclusive club in the world: $375,000, and that firmness of jaw possessed by exquisite, merciless croupiers who rake chips on Monte Carlo's greens. Miss Peggy Cleary's training has been sound. She was and is a star customer's woman.* Last week 1,100 brokers at 20 posts applauded Miss Cleary's audacity. Next week 1,099 members may have a chance to "haze...
Manhattan. She had swirled among Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett, Bernarr Macfadden (Graphic). Herbert Bayard Swope (World), Will Hays, Tex Rickard, Charles Michael Schwab, Otto Hermann Kahn, William Randolph Hearst, Alexander Pollock Moore (U. S. Ambassador to Peru and new owner of Daily Mirror), Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, David Belasco, Mr. Smith (Trader Horn), Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Elder, Kathleen Norris, the McCarthy sisters, others, including President Emma Bugbee of the New York Newspaper Women's Club...