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...visited Rome, Paris and London in 1923, persuaded those governments to reverse decisions of their own Reparations Commission which would have crushed Hungary financially; and substituted the League control of Hungarian finance whereby the country "came back" under the fiscal dictature of a U. S. League of Nations Commissioner, Jeremiah Smith Jr. of Boston (TIME, July...
...Jeremiah McAuley, son of an Irish counterfeiter, and a river thief and drunkard on his own initiative, received a pardon signed by Secretary of State [of New York] Chauncey M. Depew, after serving seven years of a fifteen-year sentence for highway robbery. Eight years later this McAuley founded a mission at No. 316 Water Street, Manhattan, where wharf life is drably vile. His slogan was "The Man No One Else Wants." Drunkards, drug addicts, broken down sports, panhandlers, sick street-creatures could get a bed, a wash, a meal. It was the first city rescue mission in New York...
...readers of your paper who would be interested in knowing what Michigan men think of Harvard's most gracious condescension in permitting Princeton, who has only beaten her by a grand total of 70 to 0 in the last two years, to remain on her schedule. Very truly yours, Jeremiah C. Waterman, Princeton...
...finally there is much that is both amusing and pleasant, "Jeremiah Marston--Freshman", a farce of the Beerhohm variety, "Purple Plush" by Donald Gibbs, who always enjoys himself and usually amuses others. Hollander's Aven "Simple", and the book reviews, which are excellent, especialy Howe's remarks concerning "Chimes" by Robert Herrick...
...banknote circulation to a stupendous total: five trillion korona. Peasants with a comfortable pre-War nest egg of 14,000 paper korona ($2,800) discovered that they possessed the equivalent of about $20 when the korona was at last stabilized by the able U. S. fiscal administrator of Hungary, Jeremiah Smith (TIME, July 5 et ante...