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...Ladies. Last February one of the ladies of the New Deal spoke thus over the radio: ". . . From Helen of Troy, the Queen of Sheba, Cleopatra, Elizabeth, Catherine of Russia and Queen Victoria, all through the centuries, governing women have had a part in shaping the destiny of nations. . . . This country has never had a Secretary of Labor better informed of her job, more certain of her goal, more skilled in reaching it ... than the present incumbent...
...DARK BACKWARD?Henry W. Nevinson ? Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Seventeen historical essays, ranging from Troy to the World War, by the Manchester Guardian journalist who in his Changes and Chances series wrote brilliantly of his own times...
Married, Pedro E. Lay Bacardi, 29, rum heir; and Loretta Monahan, 29, one-time telephone operator; in Troy...
...Cummings of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. New Jersey College for Women (New Brunswick, N.J.) Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney . . . . . . . . . . . D.F.A Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) Dean Luther Allen Weigle of Yale Divinity School . . . . . . . . . S.T.D. Roanoke College (Salem, Va.) Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt. D. President Constance Warren of Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ED. D. Syracuse University (Syracuse, N. Y.) Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Ambassador to the Argentine . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Federal Coordinate of Transportation Joseph B. Eastman . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President...
George Fisher Baker was born in Troy, N. Y. in 1840. His line of shrewd, blue-eyed, hard-bitten Yankees went back seven generations to Boston and 1635. When George Fisher Baker was seven years old a German clerk made this entry in the Frankfort-On-Main birth register: "Schiff, Moses, Israelitish citizen, whose wife Clara, nee Niederhofheim, gave birth on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, at 5 o'clock, to a legitimate son-Jacob Henry." The Schiffs were merchants in a city of great Jewish banking houses. Under the same roof but a few doors down from the Schiffs...