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...Strawbridge acknowledged her debt for the idea to Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, who served no liquor at her Easter party to set a law observance fashion and please President Hoover. Mrs. Strawbridge wrote to ladies of Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, New York. She inquired "whether it would be possible to constitute a committee of women of your own standing in the social world, who would interest themselves in creating sentiment for observance of the Prohibition laws within their own circles. My eventual desire," said she, "is to form a national committee composed...
Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) Frank Billings Kellogg D.C.L. Alanson Bigelow Houghton LL.D. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to U. S LL.D. George Payne McLean, onetime (1911-29) U. S. Senator from Connecticut LL.D. Andrew William Mellon LL.D...
...McLean v. "Record." Readers of the hard-hitting Philadelphia Record had their attention arrested last fortnight by news that Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington, D. C., Post was suing the Record for one million dollars damages for an article descriptive of "a social incident" between Publisher McLean and Prince Albert Edouard Eugene Lamoral de Ligne, the Belgian Ambassador to the U. S., an "incident" which had allegedly resulted in the Post's editorial attack upon the Ambassador (TIME, May 13, 27). Last week, the hard-hitting Record kept its readers' attention in custody by printing...
Thus Washingtonians, last week, were completely at a loss for an explanation which would reconcile the Post's discourtesy to the Prince, and Publisher McLean's denial of connection therewith. Many a Washingtonian did indeed continue to believe that Prince and Publisher had had a tiff, and that the tiff had been preceded by meat and drink, and that it had resulted in Prince and Publisher each feeling insulted by the other...
...view of this declaration, the story which TIME, May 13 reported as being current in diplomatic circles was evidently erroneous. TIME regrets any injustice thereby done to Publisher McLean...