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...Mackinac Island, Mich., last week were 2,000 self-supporting women. Members of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator...
...second violinist was courteous, but the misguided show-off had blundered. He might as well have told one of the six Floradora girls that not one of them could sing like old Seňora Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...
Seemingly petite and girlish Señora Sandino (see cut) was kept constantly under surveillance by "Lieut. Brownlee." Not a tick of her telegraph instrument, not a whisper in her office, not a letter in her mail escaped "Big Feet...
Soon however the natives of San Rafael del Norte began to question the Lieutenant's motives. They charged him with the only thing of which a U. S. Marine is supposed to be ashamed-cowardice. They insinuated that "Big Feet" was keeping Señora Sandino in her job because he was afraid to fire her-afraid of her husband...
President and Senora Juan Campisteguy of Uruguay were at the pier. Señora Campisteguy to take Mrs. Hoover to the Parque Hotel where an entire upper floor was reserved, President Campisteguy to have a half-hour with Mr. Hoover at the National Palace. The populace was out in scores of thousands but here, more than in most of the South American cities visited, were heard cries of "Viva Sandino" and "Down with imperialistic America...