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British Bechuanaland. Dr. Will J. Cameron, Chicago dentist and inventor of surgical instruments, is an amateur anthropologist. He believes that Roy Chapman Andrews, hunting in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia for traces of man's origin, is astray, because "in a place like the Gobi it takes the ingenuity of the devil to survive." Obviously the statement is a rhetorical exaggeration by Dr. Cameron. The Gobi was once a lake, once a swamp. Dr. Cameron's idea is that man as a distinct anthropoid began in the withering Kalahari Desert of British Bechuanaland...
Thomas Garfield Sterrett, hardboiled retired Major of the U. S. Marines, onetime orderly for President Roosevelt, alleged inventor of "the Leathernecks" as a nickname for the Marines, alleged onetime manager of "the two biggest advertising agencies in New York," sheriff of Erie County, Pa., and President of the Pennsylvania State Sheriffs' Association, said: "To hell with the District Attorney of Crawford County and Prohibition...
...John H. Hammond Jr., Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., was published in your paper. In your subsequent editions of May 21 and June 4 you have referred to it as John H. Hammond Jr. and consequently this has been attributed by some to John Hays Hammond Jr., the well known inventor and scientist at Gloucester, Mass...
...John H. Hammond Jr. referred to is John Henry Hammond Jr., no relation to John Hays Hammond Jr., the famed inventor...
Gompei Kuwada, Japanese capitalist, inventor, author...