Word: gailey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glad to see you deal try to give the "Christian General" a square deal which I believe he has seldom had in American or Engilsh newspapers. You mention Mr. Gailey without stating that he is "Bob" Gailey, erstwhile famous athlete at Princeton University, who has been giving a noble altruistic service in China for ten or more years...
...Crane [Charles R., onetime U. S. Minister to China.-Ed.] told me an amusing story that Gailey found Feng laboriously trying to improve his knowledge of English by attempting to read the life of Abraham Lincoln, and offered to help him to the extent of tutoring an hour a day at any time when Feng was free. Feng left Gailey to confer, with his adjutant as to the hour and was a bit dismayed to find the only free hour that could be found was from 5:30 to 6:30 a. in., but kept to his bargain...
...Feng asked Gailey to report...
...Unknown to Feng, the "Number-One-Boy" got Gailey to come at 3 a. m. to prepare the icecream which Feng had insisted upon having...
Hammer Throw.--H. F. Baker, M. P. Dickenson, R. L. Gailey, F. E. Rutan, T. C. Speers...