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...Love & Beauty. She is the daughter of President Henry T. Ferris of National Bank Co. of St. Louis. To her was given St. Louis' highest social honor. The identity of the Veiled Prophet remained traditionally secret. Up & down the brilliantly lit hall promenaded the Prophet and his court, then drove through pouring rain to the Hotel Jefferson for a supper & dance. Visitors to St. Louis last week had not only the Veiled Prophet's celebration to witness, but could also attend the dairy & horse shows, could watch the St. Louis Cardinals win the World's baseball championship...
...shady Englewood, N. J. one mid-day last week drove nine jovial members of the U. S. Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce to have lunch with air-minded Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. The night before, after a radio speech in behalf of a Jewish charity drive, he complained of being tired, but said he would be in shape for the luncheon. When the guests rolled up before the comfortable Morrow home, not many miles from where another great New Jersey citizen was dying, they were met with shocking news; when the Senator had not awakened by 11:30 that morning...
...train drew into London, but Mr. MacDonald did not awake. No one called him until 7. Swallowing a cup of station tea, he drove to No. 10 Downing Street, put on fresh clothes, drove to Buckingham Palace-the place where Prime Ministers resign...
...Prize), is, almost alone among his colleagues, an almost mysterious figure. His hatred of publicity has never drawn him into the limelight. A Maine boy, a Harvardman, he winters in Boston and Manhattan, summers at artistic MacDowell Colony, Peterboro, N. H., does much of his writing there. Poverty once drove him to take a job as dump cart inspector on a subway construction. When Theodore Roosevelt was President he read and liked Robinson's poetry, offered him a consulship in Mexico which Robinson refused. Tall, thin, baldish, spectacled, with a mustache partly concealing his hypersensitive mouth, Poet Robinson never...
...nothing for fleshy Ambassador Walter Evans Edge to do but go over to M. Laval's office in the Ministry of the Interior and invite him informally to Washington. Last week a formal invitation followed the French Cabinet's formal assent to the journey. Ambassador Edge again drove to the Minister of the Interior, this time with six silver inkstands, gifts from himself and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to Premier Laval and colleagues "in commemoration of the friendly collaboration following President Hoover's moratorium proposal-Paris, July 6, 1931." At the same time Ambassador Edge delivered...