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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y...
...composer "of high merit." Secretary Wallace was to give the commencement address, nationally broadcast, at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Speaker Rainey and Budget Director Douglas were to speak at Amherst alumni reunions. Busy Mrs. Roosevelt officiated at two commencements last fortnight, at Malcolm Gordon School (Garrison, N. Y.) and Todhunter in Manhattan where she used to teach. Last week she received an LL.D. from Washington (D. C.) College of Law and gave counsel to its graduating class: "The greatest thing that life does is to give you experience and knowledge of other people." Kudos of the fortnight: Baylor University...
Very rich, very pious are the Harper Sibleys of Rochester, N. Y. Son of Hiram W. who helped found Western Union Telegraph Co. and was its first president, Harper Sibley owns ranches in Alberta and California, Sibley Farms in Illinois. He is in banking, lumber and coal, gives time to civic enterprises like the Community Chest and the Genesee Hospital. A lean, bronzed outdoor man, able tennist at 48, Harper Sibley is a member of the potent National Council of the Episcopal Church and a friend of Rochester's Bishop David Lincoln Ferris. His slim, gracious wife, Georgiana Farr...
King George had more than one reason for fêting the winner. He held a ticket on Hyperion in the sweepstakes of London's swank Maryborough Club. In Queens, N. Y. plump Telephone Operator Louise M. Popp. 27, won $118,500 with a 82 Irish sweepstakes ticket on Hyperion. John Byron, 73, Staten Island messenger, won $40,000 on Statesman...
...vehicles with posters allegedly seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month. He heads a string of affiliated advertising firms, several utility concerns and a group of Florida development companies. He entertains elaborately, owns a country home next to John D. Rockefeller's at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. and a castle near Baden Baden which he bought from the Krupps...