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Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was last week urged to buy blue dress uniforms for all Army enlisted men as a means of improving their morale, quickening their esthetic sense. The suggestion was conveyed to him by Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, relict of Representative John Jacob Rogers. Lowell textile tycoon. Lest anyone think she had the selfish motive of trying to help the textile industry, Mrs. Rogers explained: "Wartime khaki uniforms are drab and tiresome to the eye. . . ." Moreover, she pointed out, blue uniforms would call for black shoes, and orders for shoes are needed quite...
...must dispatch a telegram: " I congratulate you upon your nomination (or election)." Last week Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois grudgingly did both of these things when in the State primary he lost by close to 200,000 votes the Republican Senatorial nomination to Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick, relict of Senator Joseph Medill McCormick, daughter of Ohio's late great Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna...
Died. Cosima Wagner, 92, relict of composer Richard Wagner (Die Meistersinger, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Parsifal), daughter of Composer Franz Liszt; of old age; at Bayreuth, Germany, locus of Wagnerian Festivals...
...interest last week a political campaign in Illinois which might well result in the election of the first woman to the U. S. Senate. On April 8, Illinois Republicans will vote for a Senatorial nominee. The two major candidates: Charles Samuel Deneen, the present Senator; and Ruth Hanna McCormick, relict of Senator Joseph Medill McCormick, daughter of the late great Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio...
Died. Mrs. Jennie Merryweather Rivens Byrd, 91, relict of Col. William Byrd, grandmother of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia; at Baltimore...