Word: owens
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...John V. Apthorp '65; Bishop William Lawrence '71; Judge Robert Grant '73, a well known writer; Dr. Charles F. Thwing '76, former president of Western Reserve University; James Byrne '77, former member of the Corporation; Lucius N. Littauer '78 who gave the money for the school of public administration; Owen Wister...
Traveling in South Dakota, President Roosevelt last week received the resignation of Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde as U. S. Minister to Denmark, accepted it "reluctantly." Mrs. Rohde's reasons for quitting: "To take an active part in the campaign for your re-election." Impressed were observers by the fact that the first U. S. woman to be given such a diplomatic post was more sensitive to the political proprieties than most male Ambassadors and Ministers who think nothing of deserting their official jobs to take the stump...
Best possible proof that Denmark is an excellent host to woman diplomats was given last month when U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen married a Danish subject, Kammer-junker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Captain Boerge Rohde (TIME, July 20). On this attractive recommendation, Denmark last week drew a second woman minister when Mexico transferred its Señorita Palma Guillen from Colombia to Denmark...
...striking contrast to Denmark's gallant treatment of marrying Madam Minister Owen, pious Colombians made suave, energetic Spinster Guillen's life miserable after she ventured to deny officially that her Government persecuted the Catholic Church. Too late a Colombian newspaper editor reminded his churlish readers: "Señorita Guillen has said many nice things about Colombia and refused higher posts in the U. S. and Europe because she preferred Colombia...
When Methodism's Senior Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, himself a Deauw deserter: Publisher Kenneth DePauw Craven ("Casey") Hogate of the Wall Street Journal and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West met early this month in Manhattan to name Dr. Oxnam's successor, many a DePauw alumnus hoped they would see fit to break precedent, choose a layman. Instead they retired in silence. Last week the committee reassembled in Indianapolis, announced the selection of another Methodist minister. He was Dr. Clyde Everett Wildman, Professor of Old Testament history and religion at Boston University...