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...Russia now!" after persons unknown smashed a door glass and window of his house by hurling milk bottles. And Philadelphia is also the home of Episcopal Rev. David Carl Colony, who last week performed the latest of the exploits which make conservative members of his church shake their heads...
...they'd never been pressed. ... He looked very white and very tired, and it was interesting to see him and his wife shun the royalties and walk off among the flowers. . . . The King looked well cared for and healthy. . . . Most of the women who crowded in to shake hands with the little Princesses and grin in Queen Elizabeth's face were badly dressed women with haw-haw accents. . . . The Canadian and American girls would have loved to meet the Queen, but were too good-mannered, cool and dignified to fight their way through the mob. . . . More than once...
...There comes a time when every organization needs a shake-up just for the sake of having one-to try out men in new jobs, to break up petty friction. The President started such a shake-up for the State Department when he upped Assistant Secretaries Sumner Welles and R. Walton Moore to Under Secretary and Counselor, respectively. Last week, carrying that all-purpose shake-up farther, he sent to the Senate the nominations of: Hugh S. Gibson (Ambassador to Brazil) to be Ambassador to Belgium, Jefferson Caffery (Ambassador to Cuba) to be Ambassador to Brazil, J. Butler Wright (Minister...
...Republic, the Vice Premier, and the Mayor of Bukhara were ousted from their jobs last week. The Premier's brother had meanwhile committed suicide. Over in White Russia, where the President killed himself fortnight ago, it was Railway Commissar Nikolai Vladimirsky who committed suicide last week. A further shake-up in Red Army circles, following the execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky and seven generals...
...affectionately known as "Daddy." For three days last week Stephens' rolling campus, bridle paths and dormitories were thronged with 600 old Stephens graduates, assembled for a special meeting of their alumnae association. Together with 1,500 other guests including Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, they were particularly eager to shake "Daddy's" hand and take tea at his trim Georgian house. By night the campus was aglow with two dozen giant silver candles, for this week James Madison Wood will celebrate his silver jubilee by graduating his 25th Stephens class, whose members will wear silver gowns and mortar boards...