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...Bedford, Mass.; Eveleth Scholarships: F. B. Giliberty, Hempstead, N. Y.; T. C. Jarrett, Britton, So. Dakota; E. A. Walker, Philadelphia, Penna.; Searle Scholarships: A. C. Keiser, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.; Pao Ho Wang, Peiping China; Storrow Scholarships: W. H. Lehmberg, Philadelphia, Pa.; Reuben Reiter, Boston, Mass.; S. W. Roland, Rockford, Illinois; J. R. Weske, Quincy, Mass.; J. J.-A. Jessel, Methuen, Mass.; T. A. Wheeler, West Somerville, Mass...
...Died. Julia Clifford Lathrop, 74, famed child-welfare worker; after a thyroidectomy; in Rockford, 111. Daughter of Illinois' onetime Congressman William Lathrop, she was trained in Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago, was long a member of the State Board of Charities. When President Taft set up the Federal Children's Bureau in 1912, she became the first woman head of a Government bureau, fostered it until 1921. Worker Lathrop fought for the recognition of illegitimate children, advocated U. S. statutes like Norway's. The National League of Women Voters selected...
...Fort Lauderdale, Florida, received the Priscilla Clark Hodges Scholarship, while the Clifford M. Holland Memorial Aid was awarded to J. J. Guiahino '35. Harvard Law School Association Scholarships were received by the following first year Law School students: J. P. Blaisdell, of Claremont, California; E. A. Haight, of Rockford, Illinois; J. F. Harding, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; R. A. McLaughlin, of West Roxbury; J. M. Murtagh, of New York City; C. F. Steele, of Buffalo, New York; P. W. Steer, of Parkersburg, West Virginia; and Nolan Thorpe, of Brooklyn, New York...
This sentiment was reflected last week by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, smart Republican politician, in her Rockford (Ill.) Register-Republic which declared that "Mr. Hoover is not a popular leader." Her paper advised leaders to discard the practice of renominating a President just because he was in the White House, to stop "following the political methods in vogue when father was a boy." Five days later the Register-Republic declared: "Illinois gives you Charles Gates Dawes for President...
Prosecutor of the 68 culprits is Victor E. La Rue, First Assistant U. S. Attorney. He is used to wholesale liquor cases. At Rockford, 111., he recently tried a batch of 43 'leggers, convicted 36. But the driving force behind the Federal battering ram against Chicago gangdom was softspoken, bush-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson, born and bred on an Iowa farm 56 years ago. When he was graduated from Lake Forest College of Law, he put a Q meaning nothing into his name to distinguish him from all other George E. Johnsons. He has practiced...