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...members of the victorious team are: Wesley L. Furste, 2nd '37, Guy Garland '36, Maurice Lazarus '37, Robert E. Rogers '38, Frank M. Sommers '37, and Clarence M. Wilmarth...
Grocer-Senator. Born 61 years ago in Providence, R. I., Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller has known great wealth and its power all her life. Her father, the late Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, onetime grocer, was probably the richest man ever to enter the U. S. Senate. When he died in 1915 he left a fortune of over $30,000,000 largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions. But Nelson Aldrich was also one of the most potent men ever to enter the Senate. With Platt of Connecticut, Spooner of Wisconsin and Allison of Iowa, he practically...
Died. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, 62, wife of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; when an automobile in which she was riding overturned; near Santa...
Half way round the world three days later another automobile accident brought death to another woman of importance- Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, 62, wife of the Secretary of the Interior. The same enthusiasm which Secretary Ickes has for breeding dahlias, Mrs. Ickes gave to the study of the Amerindian. From Coolidge, N. Mex. where she had vacationed for the past ten years attending Indian tribal dances, Mrs. Ickes and a party of friends were last week on their way to Santa Fe to see more Indians. Near a filling station at a settlement known as Velarde the car, driven...
Godfather of the U. S. lace industry was the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island, where 41% of the industry is now located. He it was who wrote into the Tariff Act of 1909 a 70% ad valorem duty on. imported lace. Because the U. S. could not easily build the amazingly complex lace-making machines that British manufacturers had been making for a century, the famed Rhode Island protectionist thoughtfully included a provision that machines might be imported duty free for a period of 18 months. Hundreds of machines were hastily installed. Because U. S. labor could...