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...Lara, Trujillo, and Portuguesa with an army variously estimated at 50 and 500 men. Venezuela's old Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...
...true. Mr. Smith was inside, sitting on the right of Professor Felix Frankfurter, famed Harvard Law School liberal and Sacco-Vanzetti defender. Close by sat Professor Francis B. Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law. Mr. Smith talked for two hours on Water Power, municipal v. private operation, from his long experience of it in New York. Utmost secrecy attended the dinner. Newsgatherers, as such, are never allowed in the Union Club. Nevertheless, when Mr. Smith found the Press was present, he said: "You've got to give the boys the news...
...American collection owned by the Fogg Museum has been reinstalled in Gallery XVI. In the Great Hall there appear three sixteenth century Flemish tapestries representing the "Glory of the Virgin" which have been lent to the Museum by Mr. Felix Warburg of New York City, and a fourth tapestry which is believed to be from the same series but which has been lent anonymously...
...Last week, they played what was to be, save for a supplementary benefit to be given March 17, their farewell concert in Manhattan. Two of the players will join a new Stradivarius Quartet, (socalled because they all own Stradivarius instruments) in which Wolfe Wolfinsohn is to be violinist, Gerald Felix Warburg, son of Banker Felix M. Warburg, the 'cellist. The remaining two announced no plans. But their work as a unit is done and, last week, their story was reviewed, their achievement attested...
...York Times read his report on the $5,000,000 endowment fund for Hebrew Union College. Impressive was the list of names and donations which Mr. Ochs read. From David, Murry, Solomon and Simon Guggenheim, $500,000; from Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, Mortimer L. Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Warburg, $500,000; from Julius Rosenwald $500,000 if the fund reaches $4,000,000 by July 1. Other gifts were from New York's Lieutenant-Governor Herbert H. Lehman; from Simon Lazarus, Benjamin Altheimer. . . . Mr. Ochs, modest, had no intention of mentioning his own gift but Chairman...