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...next party, under Brigadier-General Charles Granville Bruce in 1922, pushed a series of camps up from the glacier. Using oxygen, Capt. J. Geoffrey Bruce and another man reached 27,300 ft., turned back utterly spent. The wet monsoons came early that year, bringing heavy snow to the bare windswept rocks near the summit. When the snow had hardened somewhat a group of five started up across the precarious North Col where the temperature probably averages -50°. An avalanche swept nine porters into a crevasse. Only two were rescued...
...interrupted an officious secretary, "you're not going to get any place today, going like this. We can give these boys some books which will give them all the statistics." "I'll give the statistics myself," snapped Mr. Ford. "The boys come first. . . . What did you say, Geoffrey?" Fair visitors found all last year's good non-commercial exhibits repeated, some new ones added. Among the new commercials were John R. Thompson Co. (restaurants), with a big pier into the Lagoon on which there was free dancing; Standard Oil, with a big free animal show; Swift...
...Versailles Treaty was signed (June 28, 1919), vote "freely and fairly" on three propositions: going French, going German, or remaining a League protectorate. To Sarah Wambaugh the plebiscite still sounded as simple as President Wilson intended it to be. But the League's Commissioner on the spot, Geoffrey George Knox who has ruled the Saar for two years with a firm hand, knew better. France owns the great Saar coal mines by right of the Versailles Treaty. If Germany wins the plebiscite, it may buy them, back. Since 1919 many a German has left the Saar. Many a Saar...
...League of Nations Commissioner, Geoffrey George Knox, was busily flicking his whip last week into one of Europe's wildest dog-pits, that smoking little valley of coal on France's northeastern border, the Saar Basin. Largely German, most of his charges would two years ago have welcomed the plebiscite scheduled for next year to decide whether the Saar will be French or German. But now Saar Socialists, Communists and Catholics, faced with choosing between their ancient enemy France and Nazi Germany, are begging to have the plebiscite postponed. Their newspapers howl direfully against Hitler & friends. In reply...
...Geoffrey Chaucer and the Development of His Genius," a new book by John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, was published by Houghton Mifflin Company on Wednesday...