Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mme Ekaterina Kalinin, wife of Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin, peasant President of the Soviet Republic, is coming to the United States on a visit. It is understood that the United States Government has ac- corded her the necessary permission and has cabled the Consuls at Riga and Reval to vise her passports. Mme. Kalinin insists that no political capital will be made out of her visit. She is coming in response to the invitation of the American Committee for Relief of Russian Children to make a two months' tour of the United States, as representative of the Central Committee...
...choose a successor to its president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. The question is: Who will be elected? Mrs. Margery Corbett Ashby is being put forward by English suffragists. But the post has been occupied by an American for 20 years, and another Anglo-Saxon is considered undesirable. Mme. Marguerite Schlumberger, president of the French branch of the alliance, is suggested, but her election might "drive the Germans out of the association." Besides Mrs. Ashby and Mme. Schlumberger, Miss Crystal MacMillan of Scotland is the only other woman mentioned as a presidential possibility...
...Died.-Mme. Mary Plummer Clemenceau, 73, divorced wife of Georges Clemenceau, in Paris. She was a student in a girls' school at Stamford, Conn., when M. Clemenceau was an instructor there. They were married in New York in 1869, and shortly afterward went to France, where M. Clemenceau went into politics. They had three children, and were divorced in 1892. Her death occured some time ago, but news of it has just reached this country...
...Mme. Ganna Walska McCormick will make her long-awaited Chicago debut during the week of March 12, with the Russian Opera Company now singing there...
William Van Hoogstraten was chosen to take the place of Josef Stransky, recently resigned, as conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra, along with William Mengelberg. Both Mr. Mengelberg and Mr. Van Hoogstraten are Hollanders. With his wife, Mme. Elly Ney, pianist, the latter came to New York for the first time last season, when he twice conducted the Philharmonic, with his wife as soloist...