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...first marriage proposal came from bachelor President Arthur. Accepting one of the hundreds that followed, she backed out hurriedly when she learned about the facts of married life. Her seven-year conquest ended when British Ambassador Sackville-West was sacked for putting his nose into a U. S. election campaign. A month later he became Lord Sackville, finished out a long, lazy life "reading right through Gibbon every other year and whittling paper-knives from the lids of cigar-boxes." As mistress of Knole Castle and pet of Edward VII, Victoria took London into camp as she had Washington, married...
...about 15 years Mr. Widener has been administrator of Philadelphia's Wil-stach Fund, income from which must be used to buy paintings for the city's Pennsylvania Museum of Art. With the seven-year accrual of $160,000 in his drawing account and his usual pearl-grey fedora on his head, Turfman Widener set out for Europe last year to scout for bargains. "I am not sympathetic with modern art," said Mr. Widener blandly. "What I think we should do is acquire the classics-those paintings which have lived through the centuries." Uppermost in Mr. Widener...
...Polezhayev's ship comes in when Lenin gets to the helm. He sees his seven-year magnum opus on plant physiology put through the government-controlled press ahead of propaganda leaflets. When he lectures Baltic sailors on the color red, "the foundation of the life of plants," he gets a big hand and a valuable loaf of bread, is elected their deputy to the Petrograd Soviet. Lenin himself calls him on the phone, says he is proud of him. Old Polezhayev's heart begins to run down; the doctor warns him to rest, stay at home. But Polezhayev...
Upped to the membership vacated by the retirement of Republican Irvin Stewart for a full seven-year term was Commander Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven, a 44-year-old Annapolis graduate who has been the Commission's Chief Engineer for two years. To replace Chairman Anning S. Prall, who died last July, the President temporarily transferred Frank Ramsay McNinch from the chairmanship of the Federal Power Commission. Able, sharp-faced Mr. McNinch, 64, twice mayor of Charlotte, N. C., is a close adviser of the President on power questions. He promptly announced that he knew nothing about...
...Seattle, Manhattan). It handles thousands of cases each year. Its principal function is protection of the public, yet for every ten U. S. citizens who can name an Interstate Commerce Commissioner or a Securities & Exchanges Commissioner, there is probably only one who could name a member of FTC. Serving seven-year terms, paid $10,000 per year, the five Federal Trade Commissioners...