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Noticeable among undergraduates and alumni of the Tiffany Foundation is the large Latin population. Edmond Romulus Amateis and Kimon Nicolaides are friends, unofficial assistants of Director Lothrop. And though the roster contains such Nor dic names as Gerald Foster, Erna Lange, David McCosh, there is preponderance of others like Romano, Vincenzo D'Agostino, G. Prestopino to give a Florentine glitter to the art guild of Oyster...
Baron Passfield himself seemed to weaken under a barrage of criticism from Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Professor Albert Einstein and the Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs. At a meeting of Labor M.P.'s the author of the Passfield Declaration admitted that "its wording may have been unfortunate and perhaps open to an anti- Jewish interpretation which was not intended...
...Oslo, who will give one course open to both undergraduates and graduates, in the social and political history of Scandinavia, and a course primarily for graduates on "Evolutionary Forces in History". Koht has served in the Norwegian parliament. From France will come Andre Leconte as professor of Architecture and Edmond Joachim Vermell, professor of German Literature at the University of Strasbourg, both to serve during the second half year. Jan Arnoldus Schouten, professor in the Technische Hooge school of Delft, who will lecture on Mathematics during the first half year, is one of the foremost Dutch geometers...
...even more fulsomely feted at a luncheon given by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail for "200 Britons Who Have Achieved Fame While They Were Young." Against doctors' orders Commander Amy sat in the place of honor, nibbling dry toast. Publisher Rothermere's son, Hon. Edmond Cecil Harmsworth, handed her a contract for all her writings, a check for $50,000. Besides Riflewoman Marjorie Foster, other heroines present included Miss Winifred Brown, aviatrix who won the King's Cup for a race round England (TIME, June 14); Ivy Hawke, Channel swimmer; Diana Fishwick, golf champion; Joan Manning...
Last week Baron Edmond de Rothschild, head of the French Rothschilds (FORTUNE, Feb., 1930), sought to forestall repetition of such riots this Tisha b'Ab by offering to buy the Wall from the Moslem owners. Fifty years ago he made the same attempt. Moslems were willing. But pious Jews blocked the deal by clamoring that he would raze certain semi-sacred stone shacks near the Wall and replace them with a park. Last week the Moslems objected. The sacred Wall was too useful a political argument to relinquish...