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Britain long ago tried public works for relief, stopped them as a costly failure. Last week when the U. S. delegation to the London Conference tried to woo Britain back to such a program on an international basis, Walter Runciman of the Board of Trade firmly declared: "This method of dealing with the problem is unduly expensive and an experiment we are not going to repeat. . . . We have come to the conclusion that schemes of this kind are most unremunerative...
University of Southern California Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times .... Litt.D. Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Fleet ... Sc.D. President Foonyer Catherine Woo of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong ... Pd.D...
...late Frank Winfeld Woolworth (5? & 10? stores), next to Doris Duke (tobacco) the most highly publicized U. S. heiress; and Prince Alexis Mdivani of the much-publicized family from Russian Georgia,* divorced husband of William Astor's great-granddaughter Louise Astor van Alen; in Paris. To woo her the Prince went to Bangkok, Siam, accompanied her to Paris. To Paris sped Father & Mother Franklyn Hutton from Manhattan to inspect their proposed son-in-law, make him waive claim to any part of Barbara's inheritance...
Unlike Writer Thurber, Writer White admits to no natural aptitude for drawing. He believes his watercolor seahorse will be his last attempt at art. Shy, he does not woo publicity, rarely lets his name appear in the magazine. Before joining the editorial staff of The New Yorker, Writer White was a poet without much sense of location. He had wandered from New York, where he was born in Mount Vernon, to the Aleutian Islands. After graduating from Cornell in 1921 he worked a year in New York City, then wandered West, worked a year on the Seattle Times...
...declared for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Yet, with his eye on the White House, he would like to soft-pedal Prohibition as an issue and retreat into the mists of referenda. Widespread is the belief that, lacking profound Wet convictions, he is deliberately weaseling to woo Dry Democratic support from the South at the convention and in the election. He blocked attempts last year for a Wet declaration by the Democratic National Committee. The Roosevelt-Smith split grew out of opposing viewpoints on Prohibition?one for an honestly militant stand for repeal, the other for its subordination...