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...second point is in regard to the Liberator being sustained in perpetual office until his death, the last paragraph. As a matter of fact, Bolivar resigned on the 1st of March, 27th of April or the 4th of May, 1830, according to how one wishes to view his various resignations. As he died on the 17th of December while he was endeavoring to leave Colombia, he hardly held office up to the time of his death, although there was an effort to place him back in power at the moment of his demise...
...President and his party were met at the station by an escort of 100 uniformed policemen, and whisked away to the Hotel Sherman Annex. There they were quartered in a two-story bungalow just completed on the roof of the hotel, 300 feet above the street, on the 27th story, with a garden, fountain, dining room, reception hall and four bedrooms. The bedrooms were of no great use to the President, because he arrived early in the morning, went to the bungalow for a couple of hours, addressed the Farm Bureau Federation in the ballroom of the hotel...
William De Witt Hyde was elected President before he had reached his 27th birthday, and is consequently to be regarded as a younger college president than any given in the list of the Detroit News. The present head of the College, Dr. Kenneth C. M. Sills, was elected at the age of 38. Bowdoin College since its foundation in 1794 has had but eight presidents. The average age at the time of election was just 39. If we still think that a college president ought to have the flowing patriarchal beard, it is interesting to recall that Dr. Jesse Appleton...
...Dessau, Frau Becker, laborer's wife, gave birth to her 27th child, a boy, in the 47th year of her life. On the same night, Herr Becker's eldest married sister gave birth to twins...
Last week, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur announced the appointment of the 27th Superintendent of the Academy, Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nul- ton, who is to succeed Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, the present superintendent, who retires...