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Died. Devereux Milburn, 61, rated for some 20 years the world's greatest polo player; of a heart attack; in Westbury,L.I. A poloist from the age of 14, he transformed what had been a short-passing, easygoing game into the hard-riding, hard-hitting polo that satisfied the most excitement-hungry; the style of play that brought the International Challenge Polo Trophy to the U.S. from England for the first time in 1909-the first year he played on an international team. He played on all the U.S. international teams from that year through 1927, and lost only...
Many things fill the mind, take the time of busy Mrs. Anna Thomsen Milburn of Seattle: gardening, charity work, symphonic music, society women's rights. Says Mrs. Milburn pungently: "Mentality is neither male nor female." But what makes Mrs. Milburn really furrow her brow is money...
Money is an academic subject to wealthy Mrs. Milburn, who is a daughter of the late Moritz Thomsen, west-coast manufacturer, capitalist and head of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. But it is an academic subject that fascinates her. There is nothing she loves better than to read a book or give a lecture on the evils of money as it is administered today. According to her sister, Mrs. Frederick Sundt, of Seattle, Mrs. Milburn has it in for Montagu Norman and other bankers and thinks that they, as middlemen, should be eliminated. Four years ago Mrs. Milburn joined...
Said Greenback Candidate Milburn: "The objective of science is being frustrated and defeated in its attainment by our present monetary policy." Said her brother, Charles M. Thomsen of Seattle: "It's a pretty deep subject. I'm a Republican myself." Down from Vancouver, B. C. flew George Milburn, her son, convinced that the time was not ripe for his mother and Greenbackery to sweep the U. S. On second thought last week, the only woman Presidential candidate quit...
...Friends. Thus was crowned a friendship that began in New York City in 1907. When Franklin Roosevelt, fresh from Columbia Law School, was a well-dressed young man in the offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, he met Felix Frankfurter, who was the smart young trust-busting assistant of Roosevelt I's U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Henry L. Stimson...