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...possibility of Jonah swallowing the whale was increased by the prospect of Jean Paul's getting another 1,000,000 shares of Tide Water Associated from Standard Oil of New Jersey. Standard Oil does not own the stock. It is held by Mission Securities Corp. which bought it in 1930 and still owes Standard $15 per share on the purchase. If Standard takes it back and makes a deal with Jean Paul, Jonah will have nearly 40% of his whale safely inside...
Confronted with a less profound problem than the claims to truth of science or of art, Herman Melville once exclaimed: "By the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the Hebrew story of Jonah; and vice versa . . . If I claim the demigod, then, why not the prophet...
...architect, historian of Manhattan Island. ..... Litt D. William Henry ("Popsy") Welch, Dean of U. S. Medicine, board president of Rockefeller Institute, professor of history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University ...... Sc.D. Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, N. Y. U. alumnus ...... Mus.D. Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange ..... C.S.D. Jonah Bondi Wise, rabbi of Manhattan's Central Synagog, editor of The American Israelite ..... Litt.D...
...often we hear the remark that Harvard put a premium on scholarship at the expense of teaching ability. The Vagabond does not care to argue the point; he only regrets that a man who so well combines both talents should be leaving the University, that once again a Jonah is being swallowed up in Wales. Who in History 1 will so well uphold the traditions established by Professor Merriman in the first half, including the excellent one of making the late-coming Freshman acutely conscious of his low place in the scale of things? After this morning there will...
Died. Princess Elizabeth Kalanianaole of Hawaii, 53, wealthy, cultured relict of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, longtime Hawaiian delegate to Congress (1903-1922); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Honolulu. Though retired as titular head of her people, she sought their welfare as a member of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, preserved their traditions at great luau feasts, where she served old-fashioned poi, had old-fashioned hula dances...