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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pounds of flour, a moose flank and half a beaver while he made a side trip to lay a line of traps 100 miles away. The winter was bitter. Trapper Courtois was stormbound, nearly frozen to death. When he reached the base camp weeks later his two boys were gone. Frantically he searched for them. At last, nearly starved, he had been forced to set out for Roberval, hoping they had managed to make their way back to civilization without...
...participate in military service, were sent by Nicholas I from Tauris to Transcaucasia. In 1895 Nicholas II banished over 4,000 of them to Georgia. Three years later a party of over 2,000 emigrated to Cyprus, stayed there a year, then joined some 4,000 who had gone to Canada...
...virile, bursting beard. Appointed Foreign Minister last week, Signer Grandi was promoted from Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. During the past few years he has been the actual representative of Italy before the League of Nations and at important international gatherings like The Hague Conference. He has gone everywhere while Il Duce has not stirred out of Italy-doubtless fearing assassination. Thus Signor Grandi has been for a long time de facto Foreign Min- ister. Now he may revel in honors of rank at last due him. Three Quadrumvirs. Three members of the famed Quadrumvirate who strode with II Duce...
Birthday. Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at his summer home in Murray Bay, Quebec. Age: 72. Died. Louis Marshall, 72, of Manhattan, Constitutional lawyer (Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall), philanthropist, "acknowledged leader of American Jewry,"* chairman of the Jewish Council Agency; in Zurich, Switzerland, where he had gone to attend the Zionist Congress; of an infection of the pancreas. His accomplishments: Leader, in 1911, of the movement to abrogate the U. S. Treaty of 1832 with Russia after that country would not honor U. S. passports when carried by Jews, Roman Catholics or Protestant missionaries; leader of the Jewish war relief movement...
...while detectives were still searching for the missing banker, the half-million fraud produced another surprise. For what had Banker Waggoner done with his $495,000 drafts? Cashed them and gone to South America? Not at all. He had used the money to pay to other banks money which his Bank of Telluride owed them. He had robbed Peter (the six Manhattan banks) to pay Paul (three banks which were creditors of his bank).* Thus Waggoner had apparently not engineered his scheme for any personal profit, but had sacrificed himself for his bank, which for a long time had been...