Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) was an American attorney who served as the U.S. trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939, the first female Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to work under the Commerce Department, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner. A native of Stockton, California, Smith moved to Washington, D.C., in 1917. While working for the United States Department of Labor, she attended the Washington College of Law part- time, earning a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1920. She joined the Foreign Service in October that year. Posted to Beijing as a clerk, she was promoted to assistant trade commissioner in Shanghai in 1922, and to trade commissioner in 1928. She later held roles in the U.S. government, world organizations, and the United Nations. Smith met her life partner, Eleanor Mary Hinder, in 1926; they moved to Hinder's native Australia in 1957, where stone seats are dedicated to them at the E. G. Waterhouse National Camellia Gardens.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1792:

The French Army achieved its first major victory of the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valmy

1967:

L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, announced the story of Xenu in a taped lecture sent to all Scientologists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu

1997:

Hurricane Erika, the strongest and longest-lasting hurricane of the 1997 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing flooding and power outages throughout Puerto Rico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Erika_%281997%29

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

foliate: 1. Of or relating to leaves. 2. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike. 3. (geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop. 4. (botany) 5. Of a plant: having leaves. 6. Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets. 7. (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”) 8. (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet. 9. (transitive) 10. To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate. 11. To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver. 12. (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”). 13. (obsolete) To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet. 14. (intransitive) 15. To split into layers or leaves. 16. (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foliate

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Don’t fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.   --Joyce Brothers https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joyce_Brothers