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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rodolfo Graziani slogged up the banks of the Webbe Shibeli River in an unseasonable downpour until they came on a fortified Ethiopian post on a little mountain at Dagneri, 60 mi. into Ethiopia. Italian native troops delivered an old-fashioned charge, 14 of them to the death, took the hill, and back in Italy, newspapers blossomed with VITTORIA headlines...
...Hill School and Princeton remember "Ted" Speers (Class of 1921) as a husky, good-natured footballer who took ten months off from his college course to serve with the A. E. F. After three years at Union Theological Seminary and an apprentice pastorate in a Manhattan Presbyterian chapel, Preacher Speers went in 1928 to Utica, N. Y.'s First Presbyterian Church, to whose congregation in the past three years he has added 250 new members...
...items of unfamiliar information. The result is an uneven book, a straightforward narrative of speculative adventures in the sections dealing with the early years, which grows increasingly vague and general when it runs into post-War prosperity and depression. To characterize the early period Author Allen describes the Harriman-Hill battle over the Northern Pacific that created a panic in 1901; the collapse of the trust companies in 1907; the Pujo money investigation and the reform movement. His illustrations of post-War conditions include accounts of the Insull and Van Sweringen holding companies; the careers of Charles Edwin Mitchell, Albert...
...School; John W. Brooks, of Milton, Groton School; Henry H. Chatfield, of Maderia, Ohio, St. Mark's School; Spurgeon H. Cunningham, Jr., of Cohasset, Thayer Academy; James G. Gilkey, Jr., of Springfield, Loomis School; Charles W. Lawrence, of Towanda, Pa., Choate School; Robert F. Loomis, of West Newton, Belmont Hill School; Charles A. Meyer, of Hamilton, Phillips Academy, Andover; Charles T. Richardson, of New York City, St. Paul's School...
Perfection of the instrument which transmits its signals on the ultra-short wavelength of 5 meters, was made possible by a study of high frequency radio transmission and receiving between the weather station on top of Mount Washington and Blue Hill...