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...years after the March on Rome, Count Galeazzo decided to take examinations for the diplomatic service, which he barely passed. Then began his formative training. After routine duty in South America, he went to Peiping where he served under one of Italy's great masters of diplomacy, Daniele Vare, the Minister to China and an eminent student of its lore. During this time Admiral Ciano, with the astuteness of an old campaigner, was on watch in Rome and when he found that Premier Mussolini was about to solve the "Roman Question" by making a treaty with Pope Pius...
...Coronado convention opened. Nurse Nelson is a specially trained, competent anesthetist working in Los Angeles' St. Vincent's Hospital. In California, as in other States, doctors are striving with might & main to establish anesthesiology as a specialty which only doctors of medicine may legally practice. Dr. William Vare Chalmers-Francis of Los Angeles, president-elect of the International Anesthesia Congress, asked California courts to enjoin Nurse Nelson from giving anesthesia to a surgeon's private patients. The California Supreme Court decided that competent technicians like Nurse Nelson may practice their profession without let or hindrance by doctors...
...feet, lost her second-round match to Elsie Corlett of Lancashire. Other favorites fell even more quickly than Patty, whom British bookmakers had backed as the No. 1 U. S. entrant in the Women's British Golf Championship, never won by a U. S. player. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, five-time contender for the title, lost her temper, then her first-round match to her close friend Charlotte Glutting. Defending Champion Wanda Morgan was also eliminated in the opening round. As it turned out, best of all the ladies was London's 19-year-old Pamela ("Pam") Barton...
Star performers for the U. S. did not include Patty Berg but two old standbys, Glenna Collett Vare, six-time U. S. national champion, and Maureen Orcutt Crews, winner of practically every important U. S. tournament but the national. Playing in a Scotch foursome with Patty (i.e., hitting alternate shots with one ball), Mrs. Vare carried her almost all the way, brought the match to an all-even finish by holing two long putts on the 16th and 17th greens. In her singles match Mrs. Vare conquered British Champion Wanda Morgan 3 and 2. Mrs. Crews not only...
...Philadelphia is not finicky about having a Congressman really live in the district he represents. In 1927 the late James M. Beck, who lived in Washington and summered in New Jersey, was given a House nomination by the Vare machine, promptly rented a sleazy apartment in a poor district of Philadelphia which he never actually occupied. Following his election, his right to a House seat was challenged on the Constitutional ground that he did not live in Pennsylvania. A cocky Republican majority in the House overrode the evidence against him, seated him regardless...