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Ambassador MacVeagh, 66, was born in West Chester, Pa., graduated from Harvard University and Columbia Law School, entered the Manhattan law firm of Stetson, Jennings & Russell† in 1887. He has been Ambassador to Japan since October...
Stream-crosser Stimson was born in Manhattan in 1867, is a graduate of Yale (1888) and Harvard Law School, is entitled to wear the Phi Beta Kappa key. He was unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York (1910), was Secretary of War under President Taft (1911-1913). As Colonel of the 31st Field Artillery he saw World War service in France...
...April, 1912, nobody followed icebergs, which drifted free, unchaperoned. One drifted into the liner Titanic, then the pride of the White Star Line. The Titanic sank with 1,513 people. Now, in April, 1927, with transatlantic travel reaching its spring height, with glacier-born icebergs drifting busily south, the Tampa, the Modoc sail northward, charged with preventing a repetition of the Titanic disaster...
Before King-Emperor George V, waiting at Buckingham Palace last week, went 100 erudite men to retell, rhetorically, the world's obligations to Baron Joseph Lister, born just 100 years before, dead but 15 years. Said Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society: "It may well be doubted whether the scientific activities of any other man achieved as much for the saving of human life and the prevention and relief of the physical sufferings which afflict mankind...
Rascoe-Collins. The new owner-editors of the Bookman promise a magazine that will be enlarged to include "general ideas and culture." Burton Rascoe is not new on the U. S. literary scene. Born in Kentucky, he began to read Socrates and Kant at the age of 12. He was a reporter before becoming book critic for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Tribune. In 1924, the Bookman said of him: "As a human being, he possesses not even rudimentary principles; and as a critic he hasn't any esthetic standards." The Bookman accused him of commercialism, credited...