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...Utilities Co., St. Louis bus owners, onetime president of the Associated Harvard Clubs of the U. S., holder of the Distinguished Service Medal and Britain's Order of St. Michael & St. George. In 1887 Col. Perkins was graduated by Harvard, magna cum laude. He started then with the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad, became a leading force in St. Louis railroading. He was an adviser to many cities on their terminal systems. He brought the United Railways (St. Louis street cars) through long years of wavery receivership into reorganization as the Public Service Co. During the War, he left the British...
...with her when an important purchase is to be made. She admits any age up to 85. Although she is reluctant to discuss her history prior to the publication of her forthcoming memoirs, these facts are known of the life & times of Amy Leslie: She was born at West Burlington, Iowa, in 1860, one year before the Civil War began. Dramatically she has suggested her early martial impressions: "Before my ears were attuned to music or my eyes keen for sunshine, the muffled throb of drums and shuffling feet beating time bore strange wonderings to my small, eager mind." After...
...Imperial Majesty Reza Khan Pahlavi listened to entreaty and, with a grand gesture, has given his official patronage to a Second International Exhibition of Persian Art* forthcoming at London's Burlington House, Jan. 5 to March 1, 1931. He went further and did what no Persian monarch before him dreamed of doing: gave official sanction for the Exhibition's experts to select loan exhibits from the Royal collection, Imperial Library, National Museum, the famed mosques of Kum, Ardebil and Mashad's Imam Reiza...
When the doors of Burlington House open there will be on view 100 carpets, more than 1,000 textiles, 1,500 paintings & drawings, hundreds of the finest extant Persian book covers, more than 1,000 pieces of faïence, a priceless collection of illuminated manuscripts, bronzes from Achaemenian and Sassanian times, sculpture, architectural and ornamental detail, friezes, ceramics, enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed...
Leanard Field Hubbard '31, of Taunton, will again be manager, a position which he has held for the last year. The other officers will be Elijah Swift '32, of Burlington, Vermont, treasurer, and Charles Edward Smith '33, of Newton, secretary-librarian...