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...Colonel Daniel MacCormack, Bostonian, hard working Director of Persian Internal Revenue, announced a standing offer by Persia to curtail her opium production 10% whenever the morphin, cocaine and heroin producing countries† should agree to a similar curtailment of their drug production. Said Colonel MacCormack: "We know that 5,000 tons of opium are produced annually throughout the world, while there is legitimate need for less than...
...feel that censorship is necessary. This House being in or near Boston, the question becomes Bostonian, but to speak of censorship in general, any censorship, especially moral censorship, is to me an unwarranted restriction...
...Phillips is a Harvard man of wealth and deep Bostonian rootage.* He had a classmate (1900) from St. Louis: Robert Woods Bliss, who also married a Manhattan girl of wealth and grace (Mildred Barnes). Mr. Bliss began to serve the U. S. in Porto Rico and has subsequently been skillful at Venice, Petrograd, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Paris, The Hague, Washington. Last week he reached the top title, the Secretary of State announcing his promotion from U. S. Minister to Sweden to become U. S. Ambassador to Argentina. In Buenos Aires, the Blisses will be responsible for the most expensive...
...Right now, however, I am chiefly interested in old autographed books. I dearly love old names, and am coming over to Harvard next week to go through Widener and look at famous signatures. Paul Revere is my idea of the typical old Bostonian, but I expect to discover quite a few historic signatures. I must see the famous glass flowers too," she concluded knowingly. Miss Bainter unwrapped a gift while speaking. It proved to be a collection of old programs, one of which dated back to 1870. "When I announced that I was interested in anything ancient pertaining...
...Harvard cheering stands shivered with Bostonian excitement; fine old gentlemen pushed aside their steamer rugs and rose to their feet, drawling the name of their Alma Mater. Then, amazingly, Holy Cross began to throw the ball around in sly slants, in criss-cross webs, to come from under a 14-0 handicap and win the game...