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Whether he got $146,500 or $145,500 or $90,000 (as variously reported) Emperor William Joseph Simmons, founder of the present organization, last week severed all connections with the Ku Klux Klan and with the Knights Kamelia, Inc. Emperor Simmons, inventor of many famous titles, such as Kleagle, Kloncilium, Klonsel, is the genius who in recent years revived the Klan from its fast growing obscurity...
...instructors?the late James Viscount Bryce; Tomass'o Tittoni, former Premier of Italy; Count Teleki, former Premier of Hungary; Frank W. Taussig, Harvardeconomist; A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard President; Michael I. Pupin, inventor; John H. Latane, Johns Hopkins Dean; the Earl of Birkenhead (F. E. Smith...
...Elihu Thomson, dean of American electrical engineers, inventor of the first practical dynamo, of electric welding, etc.; founder of and consultant to the Thomson-Houston Co., and the General Electric...
...Bela Schick, Austrian inventor of the "Schick tests" and the toxin-anti-toxin serum for diphtheria, learned last week that his serum could not be permitted to freeze...
Somebody with $50,000 in the bank recently read Michael Pupin's autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor, with the result that he donated the $50,000 to Professor Pupin's alma mater, Western Reserve University. The fund is to be used in aid of the exceptional student. The financial status of the student receiving aid is in no way to be a consideration. Said the donor: "I feel persuaded that by helping one such exceptional student, I might in reality be helping, through the student's possible success, a greater number than if my bequest were large...