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Nathaniel C. ("Nat") Murray, 72, crop estimator for Clement, Curtis & Co., Chicago brokers. Slender, scholarly, pipe-sucking, he inherited his eye for crops from his father who was editor & publisher of the Cincinnati Price Current. Forecaster Murray started with the Department of Agriculture, whose crop reporting section he headed from 1920 to 1923. The Canadian wheat pool is said to have considered Nat Murray's crop estimates better than the U. S. Government's. His record for accuracy is best illustrated by the fact that the average of. his final crop predictions over an eight year period matched the Government...
...times his whole family of four had to live on his $3.50 weekly wage. As he grew older Aubrey got other jobs, studied nights in a Y.M.C.A. He earned his way at Maryville College, Tenn. by painting signs and at University of Cincinnati by managing a Chautauqua. A post-War stay in France got him a doctor's degree at the University of Bordeaux. Not until he reached 30 was he ready to begin the career of social work in Ohio and Wisconsin which was eventually to make him the No. 2 U. S. Relief man. a tall, gentle, tweedy...
Engaged, Marie Jose ("Josette") Laval. 23, attractive only daughter of French Premier Pierre Laval; and Count Rene Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun, 28. descendant of the Marquis de La Fayette, son of General Count Aldebert de Chambrun and the onetime Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, Ohio...
Youngest rabbi at the Pittsburgh meeting was David Philipson, its secretary. By last week Rabbi Philipson, white-haired and goat-bearded at 72, was the only survivor of that historic gathering. Called the "dean of the Reform rabbinate," he is the shepherd of B'ne Israel Congregation in Cincinnati and honorary president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, mouthpiece of Reform Jewry. In the latter capacity Dr. Philipson last week journeyed to Chicago for C. C. A. R.'s 46th annual meeting...
...Cincinnati dock, one sultry afternoon, Mary Becker Greene stood in the wheelhouse of her newest steamboat, peered up the Ohio River, impatiently fingered the wheel. Hefty "Ma" Greene is the only licensed woman navigator on inland waterways in the U. S. With her two hefty sons, Tom and Chris, she operates the Greene Line, founded by her late husband. At 68, she can do most shipboard jobs, bosses her crews without profanity, likes to sew and embroider on deck. Recently "Ma" Greene bought for $135,000 the old-style packet Cape Girardeau which Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale...