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Married. Sebastian S. Kresge, 56, famed five and ten cent store operator, to Mabel Doris Mercer, daughter of George A. Mercer (onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie) and divorced wife of Percival Harden, publisher of The Club Fellow (a weekly similar to Town Topics?only more blatant); in Manhattan. He was divorced (TIME, March 3) by Anna Harvey Kresge, who charged lack of affection, sulking...
...inevitable Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spoke on Prohibition. General Pershing made a brief, soldierly plea for military training. Sir Esme Howard paid tribute to Lincoln. M. Jules Jusserand reflected on his life in the U. S. President Coolidge asked women to vote...
...convention opened with maiden speeches by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, and Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. There also spoke Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (Assistant U. S. Attorney General), and Novelist Kathleen Norris...
...begun to worry, except socially, over the formidable "grandmothers with a purpose." But in spite of this exuberance of outlook, the conference presents a creditable list of women actively participating. Mrs. Herbert Hoover will be Chairman; Mrs. Robert Lansing, Secretary. The speakers scheduled include Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (Assistant Attorney General), Major Roy Asa Haynes (National Prohibition Chief), Senator Frank B. Willis...
...Animal philosophy has even degraded the noble art of dramatics to such stuff as 'Up in Mabel's Room' or 'Getting Gertie's Garter'. And along with this has followed the degradation of maidenly modesty. Evolution is a philosophy of the flesh. The modern drama is an exaltation of the flesh and the glorification of the brute. Magazines today are simply dripping with sensualism. The best seller of today compares most unfavorably with the best seller of 50 years...