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...during the War when his father served as President of the Naval Consulting Board under Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. During those years Charles Edison supervised the manufacture of war materials at the Edison plant. He lives quietly with his wife (they are childless) in a large stone residence in Llewellyn Park, a private residential section in West Orange. Hard by is the home of his mother, Thomas Edison's second wife, now Mrs. Edward Everett Hughes. Mrs. Hughes publicly supported Alf Landon while her son was supporting President Roosevelt. At 46, with his heavy black hair...
...York Bible Society supplies free Holy Writ to the hotels and there flourishes the largest Bible publishing house in the Western Hemisphere, the American Bible Society. The latter organization, 120 years old, last week passed another milestone by dedicating a new $500,000 home, a six-story stone building at Park Avenue and 57th Street, remodeled and air-conditioned. Since 1853 the American Bible Society's Bible House had been a landmark in fusty, downtown Astor Place. From its big old red brick building, it has sent out 135,000,000 Bibles and texts in 972 languages and dialects...
...Conference. Meantime he saw his Cabinet, consulted Budget Director Bell, for a Budget has to be made up before Congress convenes on Jan. 5. To questions of newshawks about new Cabinet members, he answered by saying all that would have to wait. He found time, however, to dedicate a stone bench in Rock Creek Park as a memorial to late French Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand, to make a radio speech opening Community Chest drives throughout the U. S., to make another in favor of peace on the occasion of the sailing of Secretary of State Hull...
Absent since Oct. 13 from Supreme Court deliberations, Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone was reported by his wife "greatly improved" from an "attack of bacillary dysentery of the Flexner type...
...Gorgo ("Studies of the Gorgon"). The exiled Kaiser began Gorgon research in 1911 after visiting the ancient Doric temple on the island of Corfu said to have been built in honor of the three Greek Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale, Medusa), mythological snaky-haired sisters whose terrifying looks turned beholders into stone...