Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Others: Miss Jane Olmsted of Harrisburg, Pa., daughter of Mrs. Vance C. McCormick; Miss Elizabeth Bliss of Manhattan, granddaughter of onetime Secretary of Interior Cornelius N. Bliss; Miss Evelyn Bigelow Clark, granddaughter of that aged and eccentric writer of memoirs about royal personages, Poultney Bigelow (TIME, Jan. 23, 1927); Mrs. John B. Stetson Jr., wife of the U. S. Minister to Poland; Miss Marion Dixon (Chicago); Miss Dorothy Gillespie (Philadelphia); Miss Frances McKee (Washington); Mrs. John G. W. Husted (Manhattan); Miss Ruth Pruyn (Albany, N. Y.); Miss Virginia Both (Detroit); Miss Katherine Bullock (Denver); and Miss Diana Rockwood (Indianapolis); Miss...
...diplomatic circle: Mrs. John R. Thomas Jr., wife of the Military Attache at London; Mrs. John C. MacArthur, wife of the Assistant Military Attache; Mrs. Hugh Dewitt Butler, wife of the Assistant Commercial Attache; Mrs. Wainwright Abbott, wife of the Second Secretary of the American Legation at Dublin; and Miss Maude Hunnewell of Boston, fiancee of Counselor Ray Atherton of the U. S. Embassy at London...
...Miss Ling Nyi Vee, Chinese student of Wesleyan College at Macon, Ga.. made a non-stop flight from Macon to Shanghai in 24 hours. Alone above the Pacific Ocean she had only crackers and pickles with which to fight hunger. She was forced to fly so high that her radio messages were frozen. When she reached Shanghai she was given a tremendous and well-deserved reception...
Muckrakers? have made much of the way Mr. Rockefeller bought out competitors. According to Miss Tarbell, he would go to a refiner and say: "You see, this scheme is bound to work. It means an absolute control by us of the oil business. There is no chance for anyone outside. But we are going to give everybody a chance to come in. You are to turn over your refinery to my appraisers, and I will give you Standard Oil Co. stock or cash, as you prefer, for the value we put upon it. I advise you to take the stock...
...Notably, Ida Minerva Tarbell, author of The History oj the Standard Oil Co., a thorough job on the seamy side. More recently, muckraking is not so popular and Miss Tarbell has written on the bright side, The Life of Judge Gary, late chairman of the board of U. S. Steel Corp. Critics wonder what she will do with the additional volume on the Standard Oil Co. that she is planning...