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...Norwegian guardians of the trust fund of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish dynamite tycoon, found anyone worthy of the greatest of their beneficences, the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. They made up lost time last "week by awarding the Peace Prize twice in succession: for 1929 to Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime janitor, lawyer, onetime U. S. Secretary of State; for 1930 to the Most Rev. Dr. Nathan Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, father of twelve. Each of these distinguished gentlemen will receive $46,430. U. S. newspapers cheered, for Mr. Kellogg...
...John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other names: Senator Arthur Capper, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Admiral William S. Sims, Horace Taft...
...Michigan. Professor Russell G. Hussey, geologist at the University of Michigan, dug up some whale bones in Michigan. The big animal had died sometime in the Pleistocene period, the great ice age of 550,000 years ago. The discovery interested Dr. Remington Kellogg, whale authority of the National Museum, Washington. Because early whale bones have been found up the St. Lawrence River near Lake Ontario, scientists have thought that the St. Lawrence region was once a part of the ocean. The new discovery extends this old-time ocean inlet even farther, taking in the entire Great Lakes region. Said...
...proponents of the Kellogg Pact, what are the other nations to think of our continual preparation for war? Granting the necessity of a small standing army for the present. I deny the necessity of militarizing our educational institutions. Sincerely yours. Arthur E. White...
When he was Secretary of State, Frank Billings Kellogg was called (behind his back) "Nervous Nellie." Last week his successor, Henry Lewis Stimson, came close to earning for himself the nickname of "Hairbreadth Harry...