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Died. Mrs. Lucie Oelrichs Jay, 75, Manhattan socialite, relict of the late Col. William Jay (Civil War veteran, lawyer), daughter of the late Henry Oelrichs, general director of North German Lloyd Steamship Co. in the U. S.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Famed for her Wartime anti-German activities, she campaigned against Conductor Karl Muck, founded the New York City Anti-German Music League and Mrs. William Jay's Committee for the Severance of All Social & Professional Relations With Enemy Sympathizers...
...addition, personal calls to business houses, steamship lines, bus services, factories, and life-guard agencies have resulted in a limited number of possibilities in each of these fields. Jobs as tutor-companions have become more and more popular, and more and more difficult to attain. The position Sharpe states is a highly specialized one, and although the earnings are large, the requirements are so strict that comparatively few men are qualified for such work. Only one man in ten has been accepted out of the numerous applicants who have enrolled...
...Small Franklin, heads I. M. M., and Basil Harris. He promised vigorous expansion of the U. S.-owned Roosevelt Lines. Last year this expansion became marked. Shippingman Roosevelt was able to announce that William Vincent Astor had acquired a substantial interest in the company, that an affiliate, Baltimore Mail Steamship Co.. was being formed to operate a Hamburg-Baltimore service (TIME, July 21). And a month later it was rumored that Roosevelt Lines was entering wider seas by purchasing control of I. M. M. (TIME...
...Baltimore last week, at a luncheon given by Baltimore Mail Steamship Co., Vice Chairman Edward Clarence Plummer of U. S. Shipping Board made some pertinent remarks in favor of ship subsidy, largely by means of which the U. S. Line's keel-laying was made possible...
...William James Conners, 36, widow of the hard-bitten Buffalo brewer and steamship operator who bought the Buffalo Enquirer "because everybody roasts me and now I want to heat a pan" (TIME, Oct. 14, 1929), last week heeded a talmudic apothegm which patriarchal Nathan Straus once telegraphed her late husband. Nathan Straus had said: "When you give at death it is lead; when you give in sickness it is silver; when you give in health it is gold." Mrs. Conners believes that San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber can cure cancer with an extract...