Word: walde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor: the directors of the Good Neighbor League, newly organized to promote the New Deal's "Good Neighbor" policy. Among the directors were Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Methodist Bishop Edgar Blake, Dr. George Foster Peabody, Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, Social Worker Lillian D. Wald, Dr. Henry Goddard Leach. Object of the League was to unite the forces of Feminism, Piety and Pacifism behind Franklin Roosevelt for reelection...
Birthdays. Onetime Supreme Court Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 93; Social Worker Lillian D. Wald, 67. Died. Colonel Gordon Johnston, 59, chief of staff of the Second Division, U. S. Army; after a fall from a polo pony; in San Antonio. "Most decorated man in the Army," he had every award the U. S. Army bestows,* seven foreign decorations, was a onetime aide to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and to General Leonard Wood...
...Some of the moppets ran up to help with her luggage. They had heard that she was coming, knew that she was Miss Hall-Miss Helen Hall -the new Head Worker. She had come up from Philadelphia to run the Henry Street Settlement as successor to Lillian Wald who founded it 40 years ago. When Lillian Wald, a well-born Jewess who had been studying nursing and medicine, first visited the squalid East Side and saw a sick woman lying neglected in a stinkhole, she resolved to do something about it. With a friend she moved into the slums...
Birthdays. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 92; Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, 83; Adolph Simon Ochs. 75; Lillian D. Wald, 66; Albert Einstein...
...Chicago, Runner-up Addams announced her own list of twelve greatest, dropping six poll winners including herself. Her substitutes: Lacy Stone Blackwell, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Florence Kelley, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, Lillian Wald...