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...variety of his interests-Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree (see p. 45), Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Sculptor Lorado Taft, Entomologist Leland Ossian Howard, Politician Sir Robert Laird Borden, Immunologist Theobald Smith. As doctor he was an internist, with digestive disorders his specialty. Last week, at the behest of Manhattan's August Holland Society, friends of the late Fenton Benedict Turck gathered to honor the posthumous publication of a book by him-Action, of the Living Cell (Macmillan...
...behest of Tennessee's Senator McKellar, himself on the public payroll for 22 years, the Civil Service Commission last week published a 1,500-page survey of jobs outside the merit system which will fall to "deserving" Democrats after March 4. The jobs ranged from Secretary of State to trackwalker on the Government's Alaska Railroad. Copies of the report, dispatched at once to President-elect Roosevelt and Democratic Chairman Farley, his patronage boss, listed some 65,000 political positions (exclusive of 15.600 appointive postmasterships)-one for every 350 men & women who voted the party ticket last November...
...that only physicians should be allowed to give information and then only when directly consulted. In the end the first passage was stricken out, the second left in. Into the Federal Council's "social ideals creed" was inserted a resolution against gambling, and at Bishop Cannon's behest a pledge of support for the 18th Amendment. Another section read: "Divorce or separation may be and often is preferable to the enforced continuance of a relation which has no true basis in mutual respect. . ." The delegates voted to delete "and often is." Liberal on the whole, the Council...
...many treasures of Chinese literature, printing, and bookbinding are to be found among its volumes. Among the most valuable of these recently received are two books are the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia over complied in the history of mankind, done by a commission of 2000 scholars at the behest of the emperor Yung--lo, of the Ming dynasty, who reigned from 1403 to 1424. Only one set was printed; it contained 22,211 books bound in 11,095 volumes, or over 500,000 pages. Most of it was destroyed by the great fire in Peking in 1900 when...
Pretty Mary Katharine Drexel never forgot about those Indians. Her father Francis Anthony Drexel was busy helping build up the banking fortune started by his father, Anthony Joseph Drexel, but he found time, at the behest of Emma Bouvier, his French second wife, to embrace Roman Catholicism and to bring up his daughters Elizabeth, "Kate," and Louise in quiet piety. Small Daughter Kate he took to see the Pope, and in the early 1880's to Tacoma, Wash, where she secretly gave $100 from her dress allowance for a statue of the Blessed Virgin in an Indian mission...