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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once Patriarch Yoanes threatened to excommunicate all 100 monks, commanded them to vacate the monastery. They "sat down," and by the time a commission representing the Patriarch arrived, the monks had dug themselves in for a siege. Deir-el-Moharrak, 14 centuries old, has heavy 15-ft. walls, is accessible only by means of a drawbridge to an adjacent building. Within it are live cattle, fresh wells, well-stocked larders. At week's end, armed monks patrolled the walls while police, dispatched by the Governor of Assiut at the Patriarch's request, pondered the ultimatum that any attempt...
Tall, ruddy, white-haired at 48, President Trane is "Rube" to all La Crosse. In addition to his workers' THANK YOU, he got an 8-ft. floral valentine from the Trane Employes' Club as "The Merry Old Chief." An engineer by training, he owns 49% of his company's stock, his wife another...
...Haydock had been favored by some to win the high jump, but he only succeeded in falling heir to third place with a jump of 6 ft., 1-4 in. Bob had the satisfaction, however, of topping Eli's Badman who made no showing whatsoever. In the Quadrangular meet two weeks ago Badman barely beat Haydock out for third place...
...track meets seldom fail to produce a world's record. Last week's produced three: 8:48.6 for the 3,000-metre steeplechase, by Indiana's Tommy Deckard; 1:59.7 for the 1,000-metre medley relay, by the New York Curb Exchange team; and 6 ft. 9¼ in. for the high jump-only ½ in. lower than the outdoor world's record, held jointly by Negroes Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton-by Marquette's Negro Sophomore Edward Burke, handicapped by a slightly twisted knee...
...North American Co., North American Light & Power, Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern Natural Gas, Detroit Edison, United Light & Power, American Water Works. After 1929 the astringent years which wiped out many a man of wealth merely shrank Mr. Williams' fortune from fabulous to big. He retained his 400-ft. yacht, the Warrior; his houses, his leisure for travels almost as continuous as those of his wife, his interest in oceanography which led him to help finance William Beebe's voyages to the Sargasso Sea. From 1929 to 1931 he sold down to a 51% interest in Central States...