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...Cambridge, Mass., atop the solemn, Georgian bulk of Harvard Hall there is a cupola where, one morning long ago, early risers were astonished to behold a horse & buggy. In another Harvard Hall, banquet room of the Boston Harvard Club, there were assembled, one night last week, some 400 members of the Yale and Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Yalemen guests of the Harvardmen. Each alumni body had brought along its university president. All understood it to be the first meeting of its kind in history...
...founded the Methodist Church in the U. S. Author Asbury's own deflection from the faith of his ancestors is expressed in the title of another Asbury book: Up from Methodism. His father and five uncles served in the Civil War, himself in the World War. As a Georgian newsgatherer in 1914, he helped pass child labor laws. His study The Gangs of New York has been praised by gangsters themselves. He edited The Bon Vivant's Companion, an elegant liquor manual (1928). In aspect he is an extremely busy Manhattan journalist, with a great curiosity about...
...rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract with the Soviet for from 80,000 to 150,000 tons of Georgian manganese ore per annum. 3) Reconsidering, the Finance Committee reversed itself, voted 5-to-6 to free-list manganese ore, with a saving of between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 in duties for U. S. Steel Corp., on its Russian contract alone...
...Rome, Ga., from Rome, Italy, arrived last week a bronze she-wolf, suckling two bronze infants. A gift from Italy's Benito Mussolini, it was a reproduction of the ancient Romulus & Remus group, a reminder to Georgian Romans of their etymological ancestry...
Yuko Hamaguchi, the new Prime Minister, third untitled Prime Minister of Japan,* leader of the Minseito (Liberal party). He is called Shishi ("The Lion") because of his Lloyd-Georgian hair and mustache, his roaring voice, unusual in a Japanese. Actually he looks less like a lion than a quiet, white-headed chow. Not affluent, Shishi has a reputation for the highest integrity. A Liberal, an economist, he is expected to be more flexible and progressive than the Conservative government just fallen. Twice Minister in previous cabinets, popular for his eccentricities with Japan's masses, Economist Shishi...