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...diplomatic career. One of the wealthiest of the necessarily moneyed diplomatic corps, he began as a humble secretary, advanced by ability as much as influence. During his 23-year diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house in Washington, which he has adorned with old French stone carvings under the eaves, a formal French garden. Close friends are Art Lovers Laughlin and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon...
Meanwhile Architect Warren had brought suit against the University of Louvain to force erection of his inscription and collect 2,000,000 francs damages ($55,600) for "violation of contract and artistic rights." The suit dragged on until last week. Then in Louvain a robed and bearded judge read out the verdict...
...Publisher Knopf. She refused to hurry, Guild or no Guild. Born in Arkansas, she attended Peabody College of Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., studied in Chicago, Heidelberg, Freiberg. A brown-haired, blue-eyed, middle-aged feminist, she has gone to Russia or to England, as the case may be, to collect her biographical materials. But she writes in her farmhouse in Brookville, Conn...
...Lyons a Mosaic of himself, made in the Vatican Museum, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan last week wrote letters to the pastors of his archdiocese, instructing them to dedicate October "to the supreme shepherd, Pius XI, in honor of the 50th anniversary of his holy priesthood," and to collect Peter-pence October...
...National celebration in honor of 130th anniversary of death of Count Casimir Pulaski, at Savannah, Ga., where he was mortally wounded aiding George Washington. In Michigan, a drive to collect an endowment fund for a Chair of Polish history and literature at the University of Michigan...