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Died. Mrs. Bessie Rayner Belloc, 95, mother of Hilaire Belloc, famed British writer; in Slindon, Essex, England. An ardent suffragist, she, together with Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, signed the first petition asking for suffrage for women ever presented to Parliament...
...International Association of Machinists and Chairman of the Conference which endorsed Mr. LaFollette; Basil M. Manly of Washington, Director of the "People's Legislative Service"; D. B. Robertson of Cleveland, President of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen; Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans of Boston, suffragist; Mrs. Edward P. Costigan of Colorado; then a bird of somewhat different plumage - Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco. The fact which makes Mr. Spreckels' plumage outstanding is that he is a millionaire. He is the eleventh son of the late Claus Spreckels, Sugar King. He is President of the First National...
...author of The Boudoir Mirrors of Washington (TIME, Dec. 31) has written: "Few women in official life have the versatility or dynamic personality of Mrs. McCormick. She is a clever politician, an ardent suffragist, a social leader, an expert horsewoman, an effective writer, and a successful farmer. . . . as a daughter of Mark Hanna, so long autocrat of the G. O. P., she learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated...
...husband (June 24, 1908) she was married a second time, to Professor Thomas J. Preston, Jr. Her first marriage took place in the White House; her second marriage, in the Executive Mansion of Princeton University, the Reverend John Grier Hibben officiating. She was active in the anti-suffragist cause, and, during the War, in a number of patriotic societies. Andrew Carnegie left her, also, an annuity...
Married. Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, to Eugene Boissevain, importer (whose first wife, the late Inez Milholland, suffragist, died in 1916), at Croton-on-the-Hudson...