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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Primeval microbes found alive in Pre-Cambrian rocks...
...names of such famed educators as Professor John Dewey of Columbia, Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn of Wisconsin found their places on the committee, but confronted with N. E. A.'s measured investigation, the Save-Our-Schools Committee seemed to lose zeal...
...other triumvirs were President James Augustine Farrell and Finance Committee Chairman Myron Charles Taylor (TIME, Jan. 9, 1928). It was said that Mr. Morgan at that time regarded his appointment as temporary and hoped that a successor would soon be found...
...found the U. S. financial world in a depressed condition, with call money bringing 25% to 30%. Interested, able, he wrote an article showing the unsound condition of U. S. banking, likening the U. S. banking system to European banking during the Renaissance. Seeing no chance of publishing a critical essay written by a stranger, an alien, he put his paper in a desk-drawer, where it remained for four years. But in 1907, on the advice of Professor Seligman of Columbia University, he brought the article up to date, sent it to the New York Times...
wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, on her way to a smart London dinner, stepped from her limousine into an open coal chute, partly disappeared. Helped out, Mrs. Houghton found she had sprained her ankle, went dinnerless back to the embassy...