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...return to Hyde Park the President began sitting for his official portrait. The artist: Ellen G. Emmet Rand of Salisbury, Conn, whose portraits of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the late Storekeeper Benjamin Altman hang in the Metropolitan Museum...
...Died. Benjamin Thaw, 74, Pittsburgh socialite banker and philanthropist, half-brother of Harry Kendall Thaw; after long illness; in Pittsburgh...
Last week the Wartime activities of preachers were recalled by Rev. William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford, Socialist, Episcopal minister and managing editor of The Witness, Episcopal weekly. He feared that much the same thing was about to happen under NRA, and that some day churchmen might regret it just as much. Wrote Editor Spofford: "I presume most of us now realize that we made a mistake in those far-off days and that we did wrong in allowing the State to gobble up the church to use for its own purposes. We can see the issue clearly enough today when Hitler...
...Died. Benjamin Baker, 61, oldtime newshawk, economist, editor of The Annalist (financial weekly) since 1925; of a heart attack; in Hartsdale. N. Y. His predictions of the 1929 crash fell on deaf ears...
...London where the Hon. Phyllis has been working in a West End real estate office. Married. John Paschall Davis, 24, son of U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman Hezekiah Davis; and Evelyn Ames, 23 daughter of Botany Professor Oakes Ames of Harvard; in North Easton, Mass. Married. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), 40, widow of Enrico Caruso; and Dr. Charles Adams Holder, 60, inhabitant of Paris; in Paris. Married. Martha Munro Ferguson. 25, daughter of Arizona's famed, comely Mrs. Isabella Greenway whose glamorous history includes ranching, cattle-raising, copper-mining, acting as bridesmaid for Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, seconding...