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When he commanded U. S. naval forces in Turkish waters after the War, trim, erect Admiral Hepburn was as beloved in the Armenian compound at Smyrna as the image of President Wilson. When the Turks burned Smyrna he evacuated thousands of refugees. At three disarmament conferences in London and Geneva, his willingness to compromise was such that salty colleagues honored him and Admiral William Veazie Pratt with an accusation of "selling the navy out to the British." Equally criticized for his stand in the battle of mobile 6-inch v. heavy 8-inch guns, Admiral Hepburn swept his mobile Black...
...women & children costs New York City hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, including $9,000 salary for the manager of all its activities. Although he might have earned several times $9,000 yearly in private practice, Dr. Menas Sarkas Gregory, a hot-tempered, domineering, hardworking, learned little Armenian, long considered the salary worth-while because along with it went the perquisite of power over staff and patients...
...sensibilities revolted from the exaggeration of Oriental life. But he could have found a dignified, unmercenary spirit pervading those shrines conducted solely by the Roman Catholic, such as Gethsemane and the Church of the Dormition. The Roman Catholic Church cannot be responsible for the extravagances of Greek, Coptic and Armenian rites which lor the most part are not united with Rome...
Last year the prices Freshmen wrote down as their maximums were almost all exceeded without any apparent hardships to those who fill the Houses. But, naturally, the policy of Armenian higgling has led to a vitiation of the advantages which pertained to the position of the authorities during the first surprise years. As soon as the bluffing was two-sided, the original bluffer lost his superiority Knowing what sonority will be attributed to their "maximum price," the students naturally ask for below that price...
...pepper pother. Reopening of the pepper market after three failures and a week's suspension by no means marked the end of the pepper pool's spicy history (TIME, Feb. 18). For by last week it was clear that Garabed Bishirgian, the shrewd little naturalized Armenian "Pepper King," had fine friends in high places. Broadly hinted was a British "Stavisky" scandal. Names of Cabinet and Parliament members, big bankers and business"-men, were indiscriminately linked to the great commodity speculation of the past two years. Wild as such talk probably was, there were among the big stockholders...