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Ecuador. At Callao, Peru, Secretary Hull and party boarded the sleek, sumptuous Grace Liner Santa Barbara. So did the Pan-American delegations of Nicaragua, Haiti. Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala. Off La Libertad, Ecuador the Santa Barbara with her load of diplomacy stopped briefly, but not long enough for Secretary Hull to pay even a flying visit to the Capital. However, a boatload of welcoming Ecuadorian officials scrambled aboard, were treated to food & oratory at Secretary Hull's expense...
...President of the Republican County Committee for New York City; Joseph L. Valentine '98 of Chicago, Illinois, banker and former president of the Associated Harvard Clubs; Samuel Cabot '06, of Boston, manufacturing chemist; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer; Charles E. Perkins '04, of Santa Barbara, California, former railroad official; Harrison Tweed '07, of Montauk, New York, lawyer; Francis A. Harding '09, of Chestnut Hill, manufacturer; Sinclair Weeks '14, of Newton, Mayor of Newton; Robert Cutler '16, of Brookline, lawyer; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer...
...Alexandria Park and Planning Commission, proposes to change the name to Monree Street, as he feels that "The teachings of Harvard University always have been alien to Virginia traditions," and he desires to honor the name of a famous Virginian. But Harvard is quickly defended by a surviving Barbara Frietchle, who in a letter of strong opposition to Mr. Burke signs herself "Damned Yankee and Proud Of It." A petition of 26 dwellers on the street has added reason to her cause, asking that the old name be retained in order to help the plodding postman...
...thus won the hearts of the rank and file. I recall that he came to the Yacht Club with his host, now General Cornelius Vanderbilt, and that a debonair feature of the occasion in his smart naval uniform was my longtime friend Hobart Chatfield-Taylor of Chicago and Santa Barbara. At the gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House in passing down one of the circular side staircases the exuberant "Princess Alice" just missed hitting me in the chin when she displayed the dreadful bracelet with his portrait as the War Lord, which Kaiser sent to that vivacious young lady...
...Engaged. Barbara Balfe, 19, Manhattan socialite, first cousin of Veronica Balfe (see below); and Jack Rohe Howard, 23, newspaperman, only son of Publisher Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard...