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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late that evening his family grew worried and telephoned the consulate. The consulate waited an hour or two before leaping into action. Part of Eimei Kuramoto's job in recent months had been writing firm but minor complaints on specific acts of anti-Japanese boycotting and agitation. Had he been kidnapped? Had he been murdered? Japan's Navy did not wait to find out. The gunboat Fushimi already lay in the river opposite Nanking. Within a few hours the destroyer Ashi joined her. Downstream the cruiser Tsushima swung around. Admiral Sunjiro Imamura on his flagship Idzumo...
...Manhattan, soda-jerkers from The Bronx, clerks from Jersey. Cooper Union is free and many students have fulltime jobs outside. Fifteen minutes passed and the Free Hand Drawing classes appeared. The portly trustee was now trying to keep his right hand behind his back. It was no use. He grew confused, began mixing certificates. One flipped to the floor, started to roll away. School officials bumped their heads in the scramble to retrieve it. The waiting line bunched, surged. The portly trustee apologized to the diploma's recipient. "Congratulations," said he hoarsely for the 343rd time. He pulled...
...polls. He was born on a small farm three miles west of Utica in western Pennsylvania, the summer home of his Presbyterian minister father.- In nearby Grove City (pop. 6.156), where his father had a pastorate and a professorship of Biblical Literature in tiny Grove City College, he grew up as any healthy, normal boy grows up in a U. S. small town. At Grove City College he played on a class basketball team, made good grades without half trying, captained a cadet corps company, managed the football team, belonged to the Shakespeare Debating Society. One proud classmate recalls...
Simultaneously with the celebrations last week was published Cardinal O'Connell's autobiography: Recollections of Seventy Years- Its 382 pious, rambling pages present an able, successful man, senior among the four U. S. cardinals. He was born and grew up in Lowell, Mass. when Catholic "Paddies" and "Biddies" were scorned and abused. He entered St. Charles's College (Catonsville, Md.) where French Sulpicians recognized his talent for music, but was obliged to leave because of ill health. He completed his course at Boston College and later studied for the priesthood at North American College in Rome...
...firm will move into the Guaranty ! offices, take over most of the Guaranty organization. In the even course of Smith affairs, entry of the Guaranty partners was ! expected to produce startling changes. Founded in Philadelphia some 40 years ago by the late Edward Brinton Smith, railroad banker, the firm grew slowly until after the i War. Then under a group of young Manhattan partners headed by John Wilson Cutler and the founder's son, Albert, things began to hum. Handsome, easy-going John Cutler, oldtime Harvard footballer, persuaded the firm to underwrite the first public issue of International Telephone...