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...Reginald Weir of New York: the National Colored Tennis Championship, beating Defending Champion Douglas Turner of Illinois 6-1, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 8-6, in the final at Tuskegee, Ala. New colored woman champion: Ora Washington of Philadelphia...
...abruptly dismissed from the service by Lord Weir, president of the Air Council. People, and Hon. Violet Blanche particularly, wanted to know why. She refused to accept any other government post until her name had been cleared. She comes of potent family: her brother is Lord Penrhyn and she is related to Viscounts Falmouth and Portman, Sir W. E. Cuthbert-Quilter and Dudley M'Garel-Hogg, Lord Magheramorne. There were editorials in the newspapers and an investigation by the House of Lords Select Committee. Nothing came of it except a brief statement from the Attorney General in the House...
...long last the charges that wrere made against Miss Douglas-Pennant and which brought about her dismissal are known. She was accused of being immoral with women, in other words of being a Sapphist! . . . When this information was given to Lord Weir he was so shocked that he lost all sense of reason...
...There are Ministers in the Government today who know that the case was a monstrous injustice and ought to be put right. There are two men who stand in the way of justice being done in this case: Lord Weir and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald...
...sale in Woolworth chain stores, was appointed Verne Porter, onetime editor of Cosmopolitan, editor-in-chief of Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions (films), editor-in-chief of Paramount-Famous-Lasky, lately scenario editor in the East of Universal Pictures Corp. His duty: to keep liaison between Editorial Director Hugh Weir and the managing editors of the respective magazines (New Movie, Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home). ¶ Ten years ago famed Typographer Frederic William Goudy was commissioned by Woman's Home Companion to design a new type face for the magazine's headings and captions. In course...