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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that Jesse E. James, a Los Angeles attorney, is the son of the late notorious Jesse James (1847-82). Lawyer James has said: "Jesse James with his brother Frank and a group of other Confederate soldiers, refused to admit defeat when the war was over, and carried on a guerrilla warfare until they were pronounced outlaws by an edict of the Government and rewards were set upon their heads. With all that has been written about father no one has ever, to my knowledge, accused him of cowardice or of breaking his word...
...research report from the University of Michigan, which contained suggestive findings for college-entrance authorities to ponder. It was not surprising to learn from this report that students who had done well in high school had done well in college, or to hear that "the bottom 20% [of the group studied] might have been barred from entering college to the profit of all concerned, including themselves." More disquieting was the fact that the descendants of American-born grandparents stood about half as well in their studies as descendants of foreign-born grandparents. Also, ". . . the sons of fairly well educated parents...
...Paul, the Union Pacific, or the Illinois Central to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the Sante Fe, Great Northern to J. P. Morgan & Co. Said Commissioner Eastman: "I question seriously, whether there is any sufficient reason why a railroad like the Baltimore & Ohio should give any group of bankers a monopoly of its financing...
...search. The three rescue ships talked back and forth in anxious, inaudible flashes. . . . Four and one-half hours after sending their last cry for help, Flyers Smith and Bronte planed down toward a thorny strip of land guarding a lagoon on the isle of Molokai* in the Hawaiian group. Bushes ripped their ship as it crashed down through a breadfruit tree. But their gasoline had lasted just long enough. They were out of the fog. They were safe...
...small triangle of land around the isolated village of Kalaupapa, inaccessible save by an arduous path which is easily guarded. Only about 40 lepers now remain at the colony, many having been discharged in recent years after chaulmoogra oil treatment. Molokai itself is fifth in size of the Hawaiian group, having an area about one-fifth the size of Rhode Island. Flyers Smith and Bronte were in no danger of contracting leprosy...