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...years, will continue to closet himself with the editorial page, attacking and revising editorials on a large board laid across his knees. Conservative, sentimental, Editor Dennis personifies the News, a relic of the days of Founder Lawson, the days of Writers Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, George Ade, Keith Preston and Dramacritic Amy Leslie (TIME, Sept. 8). Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith, lean, droop-mustached, with a stride like a camelopard, will continue to run the news staff as he has done for 30 years. He is often visited by his one time Reporters Carl Sandburg (who still writes...
...later the crew of a trawler sighted the body of a man clad in life belt and what looked like aviator's clothing floating upright in the North Sea. In Cleveland President Edwin G. Thompson of Transamerican Airlines, sponsor of the projected air route, declared that Pilot Edward Preston would soon take off on a similar testflight...
...your issue of May 11 you printed a picture of Mrs. Newberry, Mrs. Preston and Mrs. Roosevelt, together with a brief article which was not only news but helpful to the Needlework Guild of America comprising approximately one million women...
...Philadelphia the Needlework Guild of America- held its annual convention and re-elected for the third successive time Mrs. Thomas Jex (Frances Folsom) Preston Jr., 66, relict of the late great Grover Cleveland and First Lady of Princeton, N. J., to be its national president. Energetic and assured, she made the speech of welcome, stressing the importance of welfare work and snapping: "I always vote, but I feel that women are more effective in other lines of work than in politics." She was followed on the platform by gentle Mrs. Theodore (Edith Kermit Carow) Roosevelt, 69, relict of the 26th...
Elected. Dr. Preston A. Bradley, pastor of the Peoples Church of Chicago; to be president of the Izaak Walton League of America, of which he was a founder and director; succeeding Dr. George Edgar Vincent, retired president of the Rockefeller Foundation; in Chicago. Honorary president, reelected: Herbert Clark Hoover...