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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about Architect Kahn should have everybody's approval: only a great and good man gives away $75,000 of earned income yearly. But in your parenthetical allusion to other note worthy bearers of that name you inadvertently missed an opportunity to do justice to a great scientist. Reuben L. Kahn of the faculty of the University of Michigan gave last year to charity about $75 but nevertheless also received an invitation from the Russian government to come to Moscow, which he accepted as he also accepted invitations from scientific societies of London, Paris, Berlin, Edinburgh and Copenhagen. Prof. Kahn...
...Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five men were flung into a ditch, unhurt. W. L. Tribbey and Paul Kille, neighbors, drove up, offered help, were greeted with guns. Would-be Rescuer Kille was beaten over the head and shot in the leg. Captives Kinne, Kille and Tribbey were driven through the mountains, dumped in a field, tied up and deserted. They freed themselves, walked...
Scarcely had Mrs. Rumsey closed her checkbook and departed, when the S. S. Aquitania nosed up to its pier and debarked mother-in-law Mrs. L. D. Rumsey with a $200 traveling case belonging to Daughter-in-Law Rumsey, which she failed to declare. The case was seized. Back went Daughter-in-Law Rumsey to pay more penalties...
...Dutch calm of Willemstad was punctuated with shots, shouts and horrid outcry. Dark figures rushed along the waterfront to little Fort Amsterdam. Half an hour later Capt. Urbina, flushed, triumphant, returned to the S. S. Maracaibo with 400 followers and the disheveled Governor of Curaçao, His Excellency, Mr. L. A. Fruytier, captured in bed, and Willemstad's Chief of Police. Pressing an enormous pistol against Capt. Morris's abdomen, Rebel Urbina ordered him to sail for the Venezuelan mainland, 40 miles away. Capt. Morris agreed...
Almost four months will have elapsed between that March meet and the international meet when the English athletes compete in the Stadium, and Coach E. L. Farrell of Harvard and George Connors of Yale may well calculate that the Englishmen will improve those marks...