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Less precipitately, more than 60 other ''Hyde Park Roosevelts" were converging toward the family seat above the Hudson. All had one purpose: to be present at the 80th birthday of the matriarch of the clan, Sara Delano Roosevelt. At the birthday luncheon, from her seat beside her only child, she could see all her five grandchildren, three of her great grandchildren. Mr. & Mrs. Norman Hezekiah Davis, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Sr., Col. & Mrs. Edward Mandell House were also on hand to wish the smiling dowager happy birthday. The President presented her with a fur motor robe, proposed...
...Though the Argentines and the Portuguese, the Peruvians and the Swiss and a few others objected. Russia was finally admitted to full membership in the League last week and won a permanent seat on the highly important League Council as well. Henceforth Soviet Russia will take its place with Britain, France and Italy in running the League's business...
...sidewalk and roared the old Dutch cheer: "Orange Boven! Orange Boven! Orange up!" Ten automobile loads of Dutch Communists tried to cut into the royal procession and were beaten back by helmeted Hague policemen. Her Majesty ignored them as her coach rolled past the moat into the medieval Binnenhof, seat of the States-General...
...Chicago railroad station washroom. After six terms in the U. S. House, in 1909 he was elected Senator by a large combine of Democrats and Republicans in the Illinois Legislature. Year later the Chicago Tribune was furnished with papers purporting to show that he had bought his seat through a $100,000 "jack pot" to which even Illinois River fishermen had been forced to contribute. When the Senate gave him a clean bill, the Tribune unearthed fresh evidence. In July 1912 the Senate voted to unseat Boss Lorimer. Complete collapse of the Lorimer prestige came in 1914 when...
Most potent force in Delaware is the House of du Pont. Seat of the du Ponts is Wilmington, where they own the only daily newspapers in town. Lately the du Ponts' Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (circ. 55,000) needed an executive editor. Du Pont headquarters got in touch with the person who knows most about available editors-Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher. Editor Pew had just the man, his old friend William Latta Mapel, a big, brawny, bespectacled fellow ten years out of University of Missouri School of Journalism. For five years "Bill" Mapel had been...