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...afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
...historical buried treasures to deck his dime museum. One of them: that the original Tombs prison was so called "because its plan & architecture were inspired by a picture in a popular book of the time called Stevens' Travels. The author of the book was John L. Stevens, Esq. of Hoboken, N. J., and the picture was one of a building in Thebes and because of its high walls without windows, its inward sloping lines and its severe plainness it was called a King's Tomb."† The Author. In spite of his name Manuel Komroff is a Manhattanite...
...famous foreign visitor has been present at the chapter's meetings, as a guest of honor, or to be received into honorary membership, or himself to act as orator or poet., As early as 1788 the records tell of "a very respectable audience consisting of his Excellency John Hancock Esq., Governour of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Monsieur Senneville Commander of his Most Christian Majesty's Squadron at Boston and other officers of the fleet." In 1824 the Harvard Chapter was host to Lafayette. The orator of that year, Edward Everett, closed with "an address to La Fayette exceeding anything...
...Justice William Cushing Wait '82, president of the chapter, will preside over the assemblage. The commemorative oration is to be delivered by Professor Paul Shorey, '78. Hermann Hagedorn, Esq., '07, will read a poem, following which President Lowell bestows keys upon newly elected brethren, and the Harvard Glee Club sings a few selections. All Chapters of the Fraternity have been invited to be represented by delegates. The second gallery of the Theatre will be open to students of the University and Radcliffe College and to the public...
...significant frenzy about an internal food crisis, useful measure of the limit beyond which Red statesmen cannot go in external dumping. The Soviet press (a Government monopoly) told citizens throughout Russia of a British plot to "starve" them. Naming names, Izvestia declared the chief villain to be Andrew Fothergill Esq., a director of the British Union Cold Storage Co.'s plant at Riga, Latvia. He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia." Some Soviet papers said the Meat...