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...before him he was president of the bank at 34, and his great-grandfather helped Aaron Burr outwit Alexander Hamilton by chartering the bank as a water company in 1799. Mr. Baker's Manhattan Co. owned New York Title until December 1932 when it was divorced from the parent holding company. Mr. Baker is not related to George Fisher Baker Jr., also a well-known Wall Street banker...
...matters?Sex and Fairy Tales? Dr. Adams sharply disagrees with "advanced" psychologists. A child, she says, is inquisitive, gullible but not equipped to understand scientific facts. It does not matter whether the parent attributes babies to God, a mother or a cabbage patch. Let the parent be casual, unselfconscious and not worry if the child refuses to believe what he is told or quickly forgets or misunderstands. Likewise Dr. Adams says fairy tales do no harm because the child's world is an arbitrary one, "a definite period of living which has its own characteristic prejudices and predilections...
...Savio is a widower and enjoys a small pension for the loss of two sons during the war. He has six children, five of whom live by themselves, each giving him some small assistance. The sixth is an unmarried girl, unemployed, who lives with her parent. Pays his rent regularly. Is of good conduct...
...Catholic population of 20,000,000 as well as all Protestants and Jews who care to sign, the Legion last week claimed 2,000,000 members. In Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Bishop Gibbons of Albany urged a Knights of Columbus convention to join. In Louisville, the League of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations favored it. The Living Church (Episcopal) printed the pledge for its readers to sign. The Detroit Council of Churches (250,000 Protestants) has urged ministers to promote it. Besides Catholic action in such cities as Mobile, Rochester, Little Rock. St. Louis, Omaha, New Orleans and Spokane, interdenominational action...
...interesting to watch the number of proud sweethearts who parole the drives adjacent to the river while the various crews are on the water. The oarsmen seem to have excellent taste. Occasionally one may see a fond parent or loving friend pointing out to a companion the special object of their interest...