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...pieces and the house stayed dark. Then up popped Paul Longone who offered to be artistic director, help raise money. Backers for the first reorganized season were Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. which controls the building, scenery, lights; the late George Lytton (Hub clothing store); Banker George Woodruff; Lawyer George Haight; Harold Fowler McCormick. who is always a willing patron for opera in Chicago. Deficit that first season was only $12,000. Last year it ran up to $78,000, discouraged everyone but irrepressible Paul Longone. Lawyer Haight announced then that times were unpropitious to undertake another season, withdrew...
Last week, therefore, President Charles Day Woodruff Halsey of Flower Hospital and its affiliated New York Homeopathic Medical College, and Mr. Manville agreed to solve their problems by merging their institutions into a fourth Manhattan medical centre...
...expert became such a specialist that he was chosen last year to be the State Department's liaison man with Senator Nye's munitions investigation. Long before the President's proclamation last week, he had his office running smoothly. With his assistant and fellow-Pnncetonian. Charles Woodruff Vost, a 28-year-old State Department cub, he it was who drafted the list of wartime contraband which President Roosevelt charged him with controlling. Mortars, machine guns and methyldichlorarsine are obvious munitions of war. But what about such equally useful, basic implements of war as steel, copper, cotton...
Last week it was a woman's turn to be president of the National Education Association. One candidate, Caroline Woodruff of Vermont, arrived in Denver for the N. E. A. convention with a carload of maple syrup. Another candidate's followers rolled into Denver on a noisy "Annie Carlton Woodward Special" from Massachusetts. Annie Carlton Woodward's demagogic platform: "Elect a Classroom Teacher." Candidates Woodruff, Woodward and Agnes Samuelson of Iowa settled down to a week of strategic breakfasts, luncheons, teas...
...Elected as president for one year neither Vermont's syrupy Woodruff nor Massachusetts' demagogic Woodward but a Westerner and a Superintendent, Iowa's Agnes Samuelson. A broad-beamed daughter of Swedish immigrants, Agnes Samuelson began her career 29 years ago by teaching in a rural school, while looking after six younger brothers and sisters. Spunky, capable, she wheedled a third term as Iowa's Republican State Superintendent of Public Instruction without a whimper from a Democratic State Administration...