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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading your description of him would infer without any doubt or hesitation that he is of French nationality whereas he was born not on the northern side of the Pyrenees but on the southern. I am aware of the fact that he speaks French and also, by the way, the Basque tongue for I have heard him conversing in those languages, but he does not come from the Basque region of southern France but from the corresponding section of northern Spain. In view of this there is no doubt as to his being Spanish and at the same time...
Smart Londoners first ignored, then snubbed, then socially embraced Mr. H. Gordon Selfridge, keen but eccentric U. S. born founder of the first U. S.-type London "department store," Selfridge...
...students who had done well in high school had done well in college, or to hear that "the bottom 20% [of the group studied] might have been barred from entering college to the profit of all concerned, including themselves." More disquieting was the fact that the descendants of American-born grandparents stood about half as well in their studies as descendants of foreign-born grandparents. Also, ". . . the sons of fairly well educated parents are not doing so well . . . not half so well, as the sons of relatively uneducated parents." Moreover, "the faces of the inferior students look more typically...
...Crumpacker, 40, Republican, of the Third Oregon District. He jumped or fell into San Francisco Bay and was drowned. Mr. Crumpacker had spent the previous night at the San Francisco Emergency Hospital, after having been found sitting on a curbstone and stating that he had been poisoned. He was born in Valparaiso, Ind., and had been in Congress since 1925. Mr. Crumpacker had been an Army captain in the World...
...Poet. Born in Pittsburgh, 40 years ago, he was schooled in Europe until 15. His parents moved to California where he studied medicine at various universities but never with the deep interest he had in poetry. His early work, Californians, is of a surprisingly flat, "native son" variety...