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Named greatest U. S. woman of the century (1832-1932) in a nation-wide free-for-all-women poll to select the twelve whose likenesses will appear in a frieze in the Social Science Building at Chicago's Century of Progress was Mary Baker Eddy with 102,762 votes. Second with 99,147 was Jane Addams, Others: Clara Barton, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Susan Brownell Anthony, Helen Adams Keller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Carrie Chapman Catt, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Mary Lyon, Dr-Mary Emma Woolley...
...Chicago, Runner-up Addams announced her own list of twelve greatest, dropping six poll winners including herself. Her substitutes: Lacy Stone Blackwell, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Florence Kelley, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, Lillian Wald...
Named Athlete-of-the-Year by 52 votes of U. S. sportswriters in an Associated Press poll was Golfer Gene Sarazen, U. S. and British Open champion. Second with 36 votes was Tennist Ellsworth Vines; third with 33, Sprinter Eddie Tolan...
Last week the Press's watchdogs exulted over what they thought was the approach of a crisis in the quarrel of ink v. air. The American Newspaper Publishers Association directorate adopted a resolution against giving news to Radio; and the Associated Press determined to poll its embattled membership on the question...
...Senior Class Elections held yesterday and the day before. Sullivan, who has been prominent in a number of activities, notably as a member of the Harvard debating team, and as president of the Harvard Democratic Club, defeated his opponent, Stephen Henry Stackpole, of Milton, by 49 votes. The total poll at the elections was 345 votes, which is 87 more than the total in last year's elections...