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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clung so tenaciously to what she deemed her ipso facto rights that she was with difficulty persuaded to quit Buckingham Palace, and virtually "seized and held" as her London residence Marlborough House, the traditional residence of the Princes of Wales. Doubtless it never occurred to the Queen Mother Alexandra-born to reign if ever mortal was-that she should abandon Sandringham to a king-emperor who was, after all, her son. Filially meek, George V and his consort were content to dwell at York Cottage, on the fringe of Sandringham, whenever they sojourned with "the Queen"* in Norfolk...
...Priestley's memory at Northumberland, Pa., at the "shrine of American chemistry," was to include an address by Dr. Charles A. Browne, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry, on Priestley's life and work. Dr. Browne would tell of a somewhat indigent, stammering, nonconformist minister, born in Yorkshire in 1733, shifting about England from one small parish to another, teaching school besides preaching, and performing experiments of "natural philosophy" in makeshift laboratories. Extremely versatile, never idle, he learned all that his contemporaries knew about electricity and wrote a history of that mysterious force...
...million Soviet Russians over whom Joseph Stalin has reared himself a despot. M. Stalin ("Mr. Steel") exerts, simply as Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic name of Stalin, installed him in the office which he has made the focus of all Russia, the Secretariat...
...admiration of all the women who saw him box. They heard with interest that he had been born in Greenwich Village. They asked him to confirm the rumors that he had taken a college course in anatomy to help him in his profession, that he liked to dance, that he read Voltaire, that he neither smoked, spat, nor swore. One newspaper declared that he was "a young philosopher." All his partisans said he was too nice. . . . Few of his opponents have thought so. Tunney hits hard; he is a sound boxer, does not lose his head in the ring...
...modest scientist, he never signs his first name even to personal correspondence. Correspondents recall that given name as being "Felix." He was born in Montreal in 1873 ; educated in France. From 1901 to 1905 he was government bacteriologist in Guatemala. At present he is at Alexandria, Egypt, director of the bacteriological service of the Egyptian Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Council. †A millicron is one one-millionth of a millimeter, or one one-thousandth of a micron, or one twenty-fifth of a billionth of an inch. *This is the basis of the argument for Ipana tooth paste as advertised...