Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russia. In the $12,000,000,000 of War debts owed the U. S. by foreign nations, there is an item of $251,379,035.49 carried on the Treasury's books as owing from Russia. It is the one item on which it is improbable that much if anything will ever be paid. The debt was incurred for war purposes by the Tsarist and Kerensky regimes. When the Kerensky regime went under in November, 1917, most of the Russian money in this country was deposited with the National City Bank of New York. Certain amounts were added to this...
...White Desert. Outside of a stunning avalanche of snow, this item has little of distinction. It is the old story of the Irish railroad superintendent and the railroad president's daughter. He brings a rescue party through the blizard. Naturally...
...from some older graduate would clear up the present-day question of what to do with Memorial by telling us what would have been done with it if it had not been used as a dining hall. And that answer in turn--so subtle are the implications of every item in Harvard history--may perhaps shed some light on the further problem of a war memorial. Very truly yours, David T. Pottinger...
...Item: Benny Tyte, very much Occ., ingeniously sought to land in the Smith quadrangle from a passing airplane. Unfortunately he took off just a mile too soon and may be found almost any time on top of the Lampoon building...
...Item: The brothers Rosenblum 2G.B., were discovered smothered in a closet in Persis Smith Hall, where they had been quietly awaiting the Freshman celebration. (N. B. There is just a slight possibility that this last item may be left over from a previous Jubilee...