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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the Elcano, the two gunboats U. S. S. Monocacy and U. S. S. Palos which form the Upper Yangtze Patrol, will be released. These are coal and wood burners of the vintage of approximately 1910, and are so old that they navigate the rapids above Ichang with the greatest difficulty and danger...
...might almost be called "Secretary of Immigration," for there is his chief interest and there he has accomplished his greatest works. He helped frame the restrictive immigration act of 1924 and he has administered it with scarcely a hitch. He seldom misses an opportunity to write about immigration; and who can do it better than this man who was once pulled out from under a bed in Wales...
...quartet was heard, enthusiastically applauded for a lovely rendition of the Mozart C Major, Schubert D Minor-the Musical Art Quartet. Three of the artists are pupils of Franz Kneisel:-Sascha Jacobsen, Bernard Ocko, Louis Kaufman; one, Marie Roemaet-Rosanov, cellist, pupil of one of the world's greatest interpretive musicians, Pablo Casals...
...never tips more than a dime have so prejudiced these persons that when they see the face of Mr. Rockefeller in the rotogravure section, smiling at golf balls or giving dimes to children, they perceive that the face is old, and say that it is mean. John Singer Sargent, greatest of U. S. portrait painters, had another opinion of that face. Last week Mrs. Frederick Arthur Osborn, wife of the famed physics professor, told how Sargent first showed his portrait of the financier...
...Advertiser in his 20's, he became apprentice, to acquire practical experience, in a brokerage firm; met Charles Hayden, 20-year-old ticker-boy-graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with him founded Hayden, Stone & Co. (of late $30,000,000 working capital), to which, say financiers, the greatest group of copper producing companies in the world owes its existence. Vessels of the Eastern S. S. Co., and the Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Lines carried flags at half mast in tribute to him as Chairman of Board of Directors; so did the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. (woolens), of which...