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...York City. Soon he was made assistant to the president of Williams College, whence he was graduated in 1909. He went to teach at Harvard Law in 1917. Last January Mrs. Sayre, who had long served on the executive committee of the Massachusetts Democracy, died after a gall bladder operation (TIME...
...under the Jones-White Act Mr. Herbermann set out to borrow $7,122,750 from the Shipping Board to build his four "Ex" passenger liners. He got the cash at less than 1% interest. When his Government loans began to gall, he went to Washington to get them extended, spent $11,360 in 30 days on "entertainment." The Shipping Board's comptroller recommended disapproval of the extension because Export Steamship owed $3,952,000, had assets of only $1,172,199. Robert Patterson Lamont, then Secretary of Commerce, wrote the Shipping Board that he saw no objection...
...match and whether she should have done it, were by no means all that tennis enthusiasts had to argue about after her default. Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers, who had been attending Helen Jacobs, said he had advised her not to play, described some of her ailments: "Acute inflamed gall-bladder . . . heart condition not as good as it should have been . . . constantly under treatment." Dr. Chalmers said that Miss Jacobs had played only because of "her sporting idea that a champion should defend her title," that during the final she had sustained herself with whiskey capsules...
Died. Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, second daughter of U. S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson; after an operation for a gall bladder disorder; in Boston. Her 1913 marriage to Francis Bowes Sayre (now Harvard law professor, Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction) was the 13th White House marriage...
...theme of the work is not new, it is a return to the old attack on the false ideals of modern life, a tract against the prostitution of all that is healthy and wholesome in civilization to selfishness and commercialization. Unlike the gall of Lewis, or the satiric sterility displayed by the editors of Americana, the author finds promise in the prospects for the historic tomorrow; he draws a hopeful contrast between the hectic stampede of America to a vacuous, sordid prosperity, and the Russians, earnestly blundering toward civilization. In the new generation of Americans, which has no need...