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...Hampshire, right next to Vermont. From Amherst he was graduated in '94 when Cal Coolidge was a Junior. Four years later he was graduated from Columbia Law School. Thereafter he began simultaneously to practice law and to teach (at Columbia). He became a member of the firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone. In 1910 he became Dean of the Columbia Law School. A year ago he was given leave of absence as Dean and became a member of Sullivan & Cromwell...
...discovered" that France had saved the franc by her own efforts, that Mr. J. P. Morgan's $100,000,000 credit (TIME, March 17) had not been needed, that the conditions of the loan had been too severe. Inquiries in Manhattan showed, however, that the well-known medical firm at No. 23 Wall St., Manhattan, had saved the day. Reports originating from the French Ministry of Finance stated that the franc recovered when there was a rush of buyers to cover a shortage, following the operation of one bank, Lazard Frères, in throwing...
...horseback," who was hailed as dictator by the western world, found a recalcitrant steed last week in his Grand National Assembly. The proposed Turkish Constitution gave President Mustafa the right to dissolve the Assembly. The opposition, despite castigations by Ismet Pasha (Premier and lieutenant to Mustafa), held firm to a policy of amending the clause. The amendment was carried. The Assembly can be dissolved only by a vote of the majority of its members. Elections must take place on the Nov. 1 following such dissolution. Any intervening sessions must be classified as extraordinary...
Francine Larrimore, the star, saves the character from being a hybrid bud. She seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...
Died. Eliphalet Remington, 96, lone surviving member of the firm of E. Remington & Sons, founded in 1816 by his father; at Herkimer, N. Y. The gun and typewriter manufacturers were originally one company, but failed in 1886 and are now under separate interests, controlled by others than the Remingtons. He died impoverished by his gift (50 years ago) of $250,000 to Syracuse University...