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Show WOMAN LAWYER . H HONORED ON HER- 70TH BIRTHDAY ( WASHINGTON, D. C, June 23 Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, attorney, wits H honor guest on her 70th birthday at. a H reception and banquet attended by one H thousand, representing ten women's or- IH ganizatlons. The Woman's .City iH Club, undor whose auspices the birth- IH day party was held, elected Mrs. Mus- . H sey its first honorary member. - H For twenty-five years Mrs, Mussby - H was attorney for the Swedish and Nor- H wcglan legation, when those two coun- H tries were under one government. She H also helped establish the Washington jH college of law, in 1S96, the first Wash- : ington law school to admit both men '. and women. Mrs. Mussey acted as its ! first dean. i Sho was the thirteenth woman to-be , admitted to appear before the U.- S. ' JJH supreme court, and has won each" of the five cases she has argued before it. jH |