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...most costly to run ($310,777,000). It holds the economic heart of the nation. Its citizens pay one-third of the total Federal income tax. Three of its 44 Governors?Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt?have proceeded to the nation's No. 1 job. Four others?Seymour, Tilden, Hughes, Smith?ran for the Presidency...
...exhorting members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to labor for eugenic sterilization greeted them when they assembled at Syracuse University last week for their midsummer meeting. Distributors of the leaflets were agents of the Human Betterment Foundation, a California organization created and financed by Ezra Seymour Gosney, a Pasadena banker. Founder Gosney, 76, is president: his two daughters and their husbands are trustees. Other trustees are Banker Henry Mauris Robinson, close friend of Herbert Hoover, and Biologist Paul ("Population") Popenoe...
...Bondio, producers) is not accompanied, as in the Of Thee I Sing lyric, with much hot-cha-cha. Instead, favoring the old Garrick Gaieties it runs to intellectual-looking chorus girls, bright antics, satire. Among its performers are cherubic Jerry Norris (an old Gaieties boy), Dorothy McNulty, Ann Seymour. Librettists and lyricists of the revue include Ogden Nash, Will Irwin, Frank Sullivan...
...whether we wish to continue participation" in the Federal Council, Fundamentalist Griffiths opened the fight by trying to prevent approval of a $14,500 appropriation for participation in Council affairs. Failing in this, he rallied his Fundamentalists to fight for withdrawal from the Council altogether. Spoke retiring Moderator Lewis Seymour Mudge for the General Council soothingly...
...Author. Authoress Seymour spent her British childhood in a strict Nonconformist atmosphere in which theatres and dancing were taboo. Unrestricted reading, however, left a loophole for Satan. After three years of co-educational schooling she made a living doing secretarial work, studying literature meanwhile under Sir Israel Gollancz at King's College. Married to a poet, poetically inclined herself, she started novel writing when her husband was off in the Air Force during the War. Almost a dozen novels followed, of which four have already been published in the U. S.: Three Wives, Youth Rides Out, False Spring...