Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Teachers have been the special concern of Olive M. Jones of Manhattan, onetime (1924) N. E. A. president. They should be pensioned, housed, cared for. Miss Jones asked and received authority to accept money given in support of her survey and old-teachers'-home-building activity...
Elections. Delaware dramatically surrendered her early place in the roll call to Virginia; and Miss Cornelia S. Adair, junior-high-school teacher of Richmond, Va., who was already president of the National League of Classroom Teachers and a vice president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women,* was put in nomination for the N. E. A. presidency. None was named to oppose her. After the unanimous vote was cast, Miss Adair said: "It surely is mighty nice of you all." All other N. E. A. officers were reelected, Retiring-President Blair becoming a vice president...
Woodbridge began to speak. . . ." Such was the Denver Post's description of the hearty welcome that Denver gave the advertising people. One Miss Ora Williams of Pine Bluff, Ark., tumbled off a fire truck; one Miss Betty Blunk had her body scorched by blank cartridge fire; bathing girls put on a "battle"; the American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps played "music"; hired Indians played as natives; a hotel thief took $400 from Tom Nokis, president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, while he slept; a pickpocket took $210 from D. Edward Gibbs, program director of the International Advertising Association...
...Married. Miss Charlotte Delight Vanderlip, daughter of Frank Arthur Vanderlip, onetime (1901-09), president of National City Bank, Manhattan; to one Norton Conway, at Scarboro-on-Hudson...
...Married. Miss Grace Vanderbilt, 27, daughter of Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt; to Henry Gassaway Davis III, 25, grandson of late Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, onetime (1904) Democratic candidate for Vice President; following an elopement in Manhattan. Brigadier General & Mrs. Vanderbilt in 1896 were married under like circumstances, were forgiven by Mr. Vanderbilt's father only after an estrangment of several years; last week, vexed, they refused to endorse their daughter's action. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., famed journalist, brother of Mrs. Davis, explained she was not upset by her family's attitude, said: "She expected they would behave...