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...days later the U. S. Ambassador at Berlin, dignified, popular Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, sat discreetly silent at a banquet while famed German Foreign Minister and Peace Prizer Dr. Gustav Stresemann flayed the Hoover-Gibson attitude by implication thus...
Almost 40 years ago Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping...
...Harvard will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society, under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24, in a concert which will constitute part of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Radcliffe's founding. The Glee Club is at present rehearsing the "Hymn to Jesus" by Gustav Hoist for presentation at the last named concert...
...representative of Dictator Benito Mussolini. "Order!" rapped Chairman Vittorio Scialoja, as his judicial forbears have rapped for generations, and around the big U-shaped council table there came to order some 14 statesmen, including Europe's famed "Big Three": Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain); M. Aristide Briand (France); Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Almost at once it appeared that the chief thing all these assembled Excellencies wished to accomplish was the avoidance of controversial subjects. They positively dared not risk having debates of any heat for fear of warming up international animosities likely to disrupt the work of the Second Dawes...
...Durland's passed a rule that the riding masters had to wear uniforms, John Bowman rebelled, resigned, set up his own small academy. He had few horses and little cash but the venture was prosperous enough when he left it to take charge of wines and cigars in Gustav Bauman's oldtime Holland House. When Bauman put up the Biltmore in 1912, Bowman was its manager. When, ten months later, Bauman died, Bowman took over the hotel. After nursing the Biltmore through a creditor-threatened infancy, Bowman began his expansion and soon additional Biltmores joined the family...