Word: culver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Arthur Vanderlip, onetime president of National City Bank, smart stock poolster presented Scarborough School (Scarborough-on-Hudson, N. Y.) with a deed to the school building and property. Culver Military Academy (Culver, Ind.) also passed from private ownership. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, St. Louis stove manufacturer, Culver has been owned and operated (without profit) by the heirs, who turned over to a trust foundation last week their interests, some $6,000,000 in property and other assets...
...Secretary of State Stimson's strongly worded note citing the Kellogg Peace Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty (protecting China's independence) left Japanese army headquarters completely unimpressed. U. S. correspondents in Mukden discovered that the Japanese soldiers who punched the face of U. S. Consul Culver Chamberlain were suffering no more serious punishment than confinement to barracks. Far more exercised were the Japanese over China's increasingly effective anti-Japanese boycott. Spokesmen at the Foreign Office talked wildly of blockading Shanghai or Canton in retaliation...
...Japanese sentries saw a motor car flying the U. S. flag and bearing the emblem of U. S. Consul General Myrl S. Myers drive up to the station. Out stepped a slender, well-dressed U. S. citizen. He showed a U. S. diplomatic passport proclaiming him to be Culver Bryant Chamberlain, newly appointed U. S. Consul at Harbin. Because he speaks no Japanese, speaks perfect Chinese, knows that most Japanese know a little Chinese, Consul Chamberlain addressed the Japanese sentry in Chinese, promptly received a blow in the face...
...Culver Military Academy...
...Culver...