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...Austrian-born George Brandeis, president of J. L. Brandeis & Sons, head of Brandeis Investment Co., director of Omaha National Bank. A leader of the Ak-Sar-Ben organization, he is 53 years old, has lived in Omaha 18 years. He wore a Louis XIV costume. His queen was Miss Lida Whitmore, 22-year-old daughter of Jesse Dwight Whitmore, farmer and livestock feeder of Valley, Neb. Nine thousand spectators packed the Coliseum for the "coronation," 1,200 followed the king & queen to the Fontenelle Hotel where they sat on red satin thrones, ate a supper served on gold, danced...
...Lida Gustave Heymann, Anita Augsburg, Frida Parlen, all of the Executive Committee of the German Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, sent a letter to Mrs. Lucy Biddie Lewis of Philadelphia, National Chairman of the United States section of the League, in which they stated: " We owe reparations; reconstruction of Northern France is a debt of honor with us. The French in 1919 failed in their great opportunity, when they might have forgiven us. Shall we fail in ours...