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...subject of a lecture by Bertram Thomas O. B. E. (Mil) at a meeting of the Harvard Travelers' Club in the Geography Building at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Mr. Thomas is the author of a recent book on the same subject, and of an older work, "Arabia Felix...
...characters and are at a formative period in their mental development, during which they are particularly susceptible to the influence of older minds, especially those of their masters whom they are accustomed to look up to as fountains of authority, wisdom, and guidance. Under those circumstances, with men like Felix Frankfurter, Roger Baldwin and others behind such a movement, its potentialities for evil at once appear to be tremendous...
...ARABIA FELIX - Bertram Thomas - Scribner ($5). Last large geographical blind spot in world cartographers' eyes was the great desert Rub' al Khali, "empty quarter" of Arabia. After skirting its southern fringe for more than two months, on Jan. 10, 1931, Explorer Thomas and 13 Arabs made tracks across; on Feb. 4 they emerged at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among...
...Manhattan Co. and (also founder) the International Acceptance Bank; of hypostatic pneumonia after a long illness; in Manhattan. Member of a potent Hamburg banking family (M. M. Warburg & Co., founded 1798), he married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., became a partner, like his brother Felix, when he emigrated to the U. S. in 1902. He was a chief architect of the Federal Reserve System, nurtured it as a member of its first board. He became its most outspoken critic in 1929 for failing to hold clown inflation, and, last year, its historian. Typical of many...
...portraits, which are being done by Miss McKenna of the "Copley Prints" of Boston, are taken from enlarged photographs, only the finishing touches being put on from the subjects themselves. Those already completed include Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law; M. C. Campbell, professor of Law; Samuel Williston '82, Dano Professor of Law; Calvert Magruder, professor of Law; E. M. Morgan '02. Bussey Professor of Law; E. M. Dodd '10, professor of Law; E. R. James, professor of Law; W. A. Seavey '01, professor of Law; A. W. Scott, Story Professor of Law; G. N. Garner '11, professor...