Miss Wilson Leads Hearing On School Forum Use
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the President, defends the right to use school buildings for community forums at a Capitol hearing. Opponent President Blair doubts broadening the law. advocates urge local democracy with Sunday meetings and public participation.
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Bhe
Bair
Capitol
Margaret Wilson
House District Committee
Board of Education
Wilson
Blair
Hach
Mise Wilson
Ragsdale
South Carolina
Ming Wilson
Mies Wilson
Congress
Democratic Congress
Business of Congress
Edward J. Ward
Bureau of Education
Rochester
N. C
Wisconsin
Besedais
Ward
Claxton
Bureau
Mr. Ragsdale
D A R Factional Fight Over Founding Claim At DAR
A special Continental Hall session called by Mrs. William Story confronted questions over Mary S Lockwood 34 a founder claim and DAR membership. Witnesses alleged July 1880 plans foreshadowing the DAR with Desha and Walworth backing the founding. George Washington descendant Eugenia Guernsey faction predicts further campaign actions at congress.
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the Daughters of the American Revolution
Continental Hall
Wiliam Cumming Story
Mary 8
Lockwood
Mary Desha
Kentucky
Eugenia
George Washington
Ellen Hardin Walworth
New York
Big City
Benjamin Harrigon
Harrison
Guernsey
Story
D. A.R
Ihe
Clark Attends Chipfield Cannon Dinner in Comedy of Errors
Speaker of the House, Champ Clark, guest of Rep. B. M. Chip erfield at a Republican dinner for Uncle Joe Cannon. A misplaced engagement book triggered a chase across hotels to find the correct gathering, ending with Clark joining the Phi Kappa Psi banquet at Rauscher's and delivering entertaining after dinner remarks. Notable attendees included numerous House members and Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman.
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Champ Clark
B. M. Chiperfield
Illinois
Uncle Joe" Cannon
Clark
Speaker Clark
Mr. Chiperfield
Phi Kanpa Psi
Washington
Rauscher’s
Congress
Bennett
Jim Mann
Mrs. Mann
Uncle Joe
Chiperfield
D. R. Anthony
W. 8. Bennet
Fred A. Britten
Philip P. Campbell
John H. Capstick
Ira C. Copley
Stephen C. Dempsey
Thomas B. Dunn
Edward E. Dennison
Tohn J. Esch
George E. Foss
Charles E. Puller
Joseph W. Fordney
Frank L. Greene
Frederick H. Gillett
Ebenezer J. Hill
Edward J. King
Irvine L. Lenroot
William B. McKinley
John C. McKenzie
Frank W. Mondell
Walter W. Magee
Martin B. Madden
J. Hampton Moore
James R. Mann
Clarence B. Miller
William A. Hodenberg
John A. Sterling
Charles H. Sloan
Horace M. Towner
Joseph Walsh
Frank P. Woods
Thomas S. Williams
William W. Wilson
Loren E. Wheeler
Lawrence Y. Sherman
Washington Servants Union Report Sparks Kitchen Reform
A Washington servants union boosted wages but cut efficiency by half, with garbage as the test of value. Mrs Flora McDonald Thompson urged housekeepers to train staff in the kitchen, calling the Secretary of Agriculture a national concern pioneer. Other speakers included Mrs Hooves and Mrs Peters.
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Washington
Housekeepers’ Alliance
Woodward & Loth- Top
Flora McDonald Thompson
The
Alliance
Christopher Columbus
Hooves
Gentlewoman's League
Peters
Reference Circle
Wilson Receives Baseball Pass for Summer Games
President Wilson yesterday received from Ben Minor, president of the Washington Baseball Club, a pass to all games at the American League grounds this summer. The pass came in an elaborately decorated leather case. He was invited to attend the opening game and toss the first ball, but another engagement prevented his attendance.
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Wilson
Ben Minor
Washington Baseball Club
France Declares Vulcain and Ione Cleared for New York
France assures no guns aboard the liners Vulcain and Ione in New York will be used offensively and Collector Malone was instructed yesterday to clear the ships.
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France
United States
Vulcain
Ione
New York
Malone
Democrats to Feast at Willard Hotel Banquet
Seven hundred Democrats including seven women accept invitations to the Jefferson day banquet at the Willard Hotel tonight where President Wilson is expected to deliver the keynote of his reelection campaign. Woolley of the Common Counsel Club hosts and touts the event as the largest political affair in Washington.
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Willard Hotel
Wilson
R. W. Woolley
Common Counsel Club
Washington
National Committee
W. F McCombs
Cabinet
Comton Counsel Club
Roland S. Morris
Pennsylvania
Oppose Pending Forum Bill At Connecticut Ave Meeting
The Connecticut Avenue Citizens' Association adopted a resolution opposing the Hollis-Johnson bill in its present form while approving the public forum principle and use of public school buildings for civic purposes. It urged delegates to favor home rule suffrage and District representation in Congress on equal terms with the states, and platform support for those principles. New members admitted include George Geekie and J. M. Tighe among others.
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Hollis-Johnson
Connecticut Avenue Citizens’ Association
Army and Navy Preparatory School
David Selke J. P. Crawford
Congress
Levi H. David
Fred Emery
Mrs
B. L. Hellman
A. Harmon
Louia Bush
Harry W. Hahn
J. M. Tighe
James Parmelee
R. W. Stone
J. B. W. Tracy
W. B. Shaw
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Business High School
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Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr
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Claudia Carstedt
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Speaker
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Mann
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Servants’ Union Rules
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Baseball
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Olmsted
le Roy
SOL. Herzog & Co., Inc
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Columbia Road
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Lew Kelly
Lyceum Theater
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Joe Turner
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Henry Miller
Ruth Chatterton
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Belasco
Lawrence Grossmith
Villa
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Norman L. Sper
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A. H. van Burem
LOEW
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Cleo
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Love
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