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Steadily and ruthlessly Button rises to power. He squeezes a onetime benefactor out of his steamship business. He imports, under heartless conditions, coolie labor to build western railways. Finally, when pressed close to the wall by Japanese mercantile competition on the Pacific, "Gold Eagle Guy" purloins a load of gold from one of his own ships, then sends it to sea to sink with all hands...
...Jersey coast, was ordered to take on an oceanographer, proceed to Greenland on a "scientific cruise," get back as fast as it could. But the Champlain could not get back in time to answer the SOS of the liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister Owen and her benefactor the embarrassment of explaining to Delaware's Republican Senator Hastings why "the gem of the Coast Guard fleet was taken from its regular station near the scene of the disaster and sent on a needless junket...
Died? Evelyn Butler, circa 60, professor of English at Butler University (Indianapolis), onetime (1923-30) Dean of Women, daughter of the University's onetime President Scot Butler, granddaughter of Benefactor Ovid Butler, for whom the University was named: after long illness; in Indianapolis...
...qualifications. He has risen to distinguished station, he is a benefactor of the University, and he is held in high esteem by those members of his class who have, as he has, made marks in the world. He represents a country which has not been so honored by Harvard is one of its leaders since 1002. When Prince Henry of Prussia was given the LL.D., white the University pushed to confer the degree last year upon the 'new French and English ambassadors...
...exclusive cancer hospital in the U S., second in the world.* At the speakers' table were, among others, President Dean Lewis of the American Medical Association; President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; Harry Pelham Robbins of Manhattan's Empire Trust Co., who presided; Lucius Nathan Littauer, glovemaking benefactor; William Henry Donner, grandfather of President Roosevelt's Grandson William Donner Roosevelt; Dr. Clarence Cook Little, director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. President Roosevelt sent a message of good wishes to "Memorial Hospital [whose] human clinical research and service in the field of cancer...