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...written a biography on everyone's favorite subject : himself. Emil Ludwig was born Cohn 50 years ago, son of an eye-doctor in Breslau. Germany. When he was two years old his father furthered the family's fortunes by changing its name. Emil had a good edu cation and then went to work in his uncle's prosperous coal business. He did well, but a canker ate him: like many romantic boys he dreamed of being a great poet. When he fell in love (at sight) with a girl he called Diana, she encouraged his literary ambitions...
Cornell university proclaimed last week a "new world's record in support of edu-cation." The first week in April, Cornellmen all over the U. S. and Canada were solicited for alma mater in a campaign patterned after the Red Cross roll-call. Over the radio went the voices of longtime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, President Livingston Farrand and Myron Charles Taylor, Class of 1894, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee. Campaigners strove to overpass Yale's record for alumni subscribers (9,493) made in 1928. Cornell results: total subscribers for year...
...intimate information, startling lies, as he has seldom before been attacked. Fascist officials have sharp orders to apprehend and silence Loud Speaker's perpetrators without delay or mercy, for ridicule is the one weapon no dictatorship can long withstand. Roman gossips, well aware of the breach over edu cation and other matters between Il Dnce and Pius XI, have slyly but of course quite erroneously suggested that Loud Speaker emanates from the same sanctified publishing plant as L'Osservatore Romano...
...care of them all. Last week President Hoover telegraphed him congratulations on the dedication of the Institute. Secretary Mellon and his brother telegraphed him the promise of $30,000 for a research fellowship. Adolph Lewisohn, Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife of Wilson's first Assistant Secretary of War. She raised the $4,000,000 which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William...
...case they would get 15 billion dollars over 37 years. The first offer (which so enraged the French and British that they almost for got there was a second) provided that if Germany were granted "access to colonial raw material," preferential tariff treatment from the Allies, and "economic communi cation with the detached province of East Prussia, then the Fatherland would pledge unconditional payment of the 15 billion dollars. The second offer provided for pay ment of the same amount but was conditional and so drawn as to provide even more protection for Germany than that country already receives under...