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...ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. Her paternal grandmother's family, she believes, sold the Federal Government the Hudson River bluff on which the U. S. Military Academy stands at West Point, N. Y. Her great-aunt was appointed West Point postmistress by President Polk, served for 49 years. Her mother was born at West Point. Her father, Lieut. Henry Moore Harrington, graduated from the Academy in 1872, was killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. For kindly, plain-faced Spinster Grace Aileen Harrington this distinguished ancestry brought its reward: appointment as West Point postmistress...
Last December Postmaster General Farley learned that Postmistress Harrington's term was due to expire in January, listened sympathetically to a Highland Falls, N. Y. bigwig who wished to appoint a deserving female Democrat in her stead. The news leaked out. Opposition from all quarters, especially from U. S. Army officials, who considered her post inviolate from patronage, forced "General" Farley to drop his candidate. Last fortnight the Army and Navy Journal charged that James A. Farley was still out to oust Postmistress Harrington...
...something went wrong with the lubrication. The motor burned out and Lieut. McCoy was forced down into a cow pasture at Dishtown, Pa. He slung the 211 Ib. of mail on his back, slogged two miles through the snow into Woodland, where he handed his mail over to the postmistress to be forwarded by train...
...Labor Department ; Genevieve Cline, first woman Federal judge (New York Customs Court) ; Annabel Mathews, first woman member of the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals; Mabel G. Reinecke, first woman collector of internal revenue (Northern Illinois) ; Jean W. Wittich, first woman state budget commissioner (Minnesota) ; Earlene White, first postmistress of the U. S. Capitol Building. At the Palmer House two days later another conclave of women began : the International Congress of Women of a Century of Progress. To preside over it came Lena Madesin Phillips, Manhattan lawyer, organizer and onetime president of the Federation of Business & Professional Women...
...Nathaniel Polk, who was reputed to be a grandson of President James Knox Polk (1795-1849), had lived alone in one tightly shut room of her large house ever since her husband's death in 1889. She did her own work, spoke to no one but the village postmistress, one Ann Huess. Last week Ann Huess missed her, got police to break into the house. Mrs. Claire Polk sat by her fireside, warmed by a flickering gas log. She had been dead a week, of carbon monoxide poisoning...