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Tired of hotel life Mrs. Johnson took a non-paying job on NRA's Consumers Advisory Board, chairmanned by Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. A quiet, cheery, unassuming person in simple clothes, the General's wife works in the complaint division sits in on many a code hearing...
Last week Mrs. Rumsey's Consumer's Board was revealed as a battlefield in which a clash of ideas had virtually stalemated its activities. Though Mrs. Rumsey was the daughter of the late great Railroader Edward Henry Harriman and founded the socialite Junior League, she is no conservative social idler. An ardent liberal with Democratic leanings, she believes in a co-operative commonwealth and the utmost protection for consumers against industrial profiteering. To her board was appointed Professor William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago sociologist who worked on Herbert Hoover's mammoth social trends survey. When...
Last April when President Roosevelt appointed Robert Hayes Gore to be Governor of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican politicos did their best to find out who he was. Unlike their then Governor ,Republican James Rumsey Beverley, he had never lived in Puerto Rico. Unlike young Theodore Roosevelt who had preceded Governor Beverley, he had no great name. All they could discover was that he came from Florida, had nine children. They were pleased with the nine children because that meant that he could sympathize with the Puerto Rican love of big families. They were also pleased to find that...
...amateur pilots who have not flown over 200 hours, and will take place Wednesday at the Boston Municipal Airport at 2 o'clock. There will be seven events including a novice race, bomb dropping, a triangular closed course race, precision landings, and an obstacle race. Brown and C. C. Rumsey '33 will compete in the more difficult events...
Married, Pierre Claudel, 24, elder son of France's Ambassador Paul Claudel who this week left Washington for his new post at Brussels; and Marion Rumsey Cartier, 21, only child of Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier; in Manhattan...