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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman materialism ? If so, would He work through the consciousness and personality of a Kellogg, a Coolidge, a Lloyd George or a Baldwin, or through some gentle, strong person fit to express the power of the " strong Son of God, immortal love" ? If the latter, why not a person born of the gentle, intelligent, clean, ascetic Brahmin stock? For if He came as a Protestant, would Catholics accept? If as a Catholic, would Christian Scientists? When last time He came, the Christ worked through a disciple but the Imperial Roman business men ignored Him and the orthodox Jewish theologians murdered...
...University of Chicago Medical School, $500,000; to the Wilmer (Eye) Institute Fund of Johns Hopkins University, $50,000; to the creating of "neat and tidy" rural public schools for Negroes, $1,500,000; to European War Relief $1,000,000. One-third of his time does this Illinois-born Jew give to charitable, religious and educational enterprises. Little does he give to himself other than a pleasant, comfortable life. A member of ten clubs, he would rather spend hours with his family in his home on Ellis Ave., Chicago...
...baby was born in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. The public that went to see it felt much as Benjamin Franklin did when, to conceal his misgivings, he said to a French balloonist who had urged him to ascend, "Newborn infants are singularly uninteresting...
...Born at Fairfield, Conn., in 1857, Henry Fairfield Osborn was graduated in 1877 from the College of New Jersey (which became Princeton University in 1896). He accompanied Princeton explorations in the Far West, studied anatomy and histology in Manhattan, biology in Britain with Balfour and Huxley (meeting Darwin there), taught at Princeton until 1890, when he was chosen curator of vertebrate paleontology by the Museum he now heads. He has prosecuted extensive fossil explorations for the Museum, discovering and identifying many lost species (especially reptiles and pachyderms), and building up the largest collection of vertebrate fossils in the world. Among...
Just 100 years ago a babe with an enormous head and wide, staring eyes was born at the Chateau de Blowitz, near Pilsen, Bohemia. Half a century later one Henri Stephan de Blowitz, jack of all trades, paunchy ne'er-do-well, sought the Paris office of the famed London Times and audaciously asked for a job, although he admitted that he had never written a line of news in all his wastrel life...