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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inscription proposed for the restored Louvain Library is "Destroyed by German fury; restored by American gifts." There are nearly two million German-born persons of voting age in the U. S., more than any other national or racial group except Jews and Negroes. The German vote, well organized, is potent. It is greatly influenced by the dignified nine-year-old Steuben Society of America, one of whose objects is to alter current ideas about War Guilt. There was, therefore, more than one reason for last week's headlines: "Hoover is Undecided on Visiting Louvain...
...Bagdad link (which already functions to a point some miles south of Aleppo) and then extend the line from Bagdad through Persia to India. A development of prime significance in this region, last week, was the signing at Teheran, Persia, of a $100,000,000 contract whereby an international group including Ulen & Co. and J. G. White Engineering Corp. of Manhattan have agreed to build a railroad from Bander Abbas on the Persian gulf to the Persian capital of Teheran and thence on to an undetermined point on the Caspian seashore...
...school maintained by the United States Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Last week, details finally emerged as to the recent murder of Hospital Superintendent Dr. Walter F. Seymour (TIME, May 7). It appeared that when Nationalist troops took Tsining recently on their victorious march to Tsinan (see above) a group of Nationalist soldiers rushed for the women's dormitory of the mission school with intent to possess themselves of its occupants. When kindly Dr. Seymour sought to bar the dormitory door with his slender body the soldiers shot him down...
...success of "Morris Plan" banks made enterprising bankers study the field. In New York City the National City group made surveys ; in Buffalo the Marine Trust group (Chairman Elliott C. McDougal, President George Franklin Rand,* Vice-President, Seymour H. Knox). Last week the Marine Trust announced that it would loan money at 6%, without security, to salaried persons. Mr. Mitchell's National City had anticipated Buffalo...
...battle between the two evangelists now promises to assume Herculean proportions. After Mr. Voliva has painfully gathered his group of faithful followers, lo, those very ones are accused, of all people in the world, of being perverted. The indignant apostle, helpless on the far side of an ocean, can only pray while the enemy makes a determined attack on his very stronghold, and of what use are new converts when the old are falling before the Amazon-like assault? It seems as if the master-believer would be forced to return to defend his hard-won following. Once in Zion...