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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could produce one of the most remarkable jingle-jangles of sound ever heard: he could set all his 885 bells to ringing simultaneously. During years of travel Mr. Spear has collected bells from big to tiny, many of them old and odd, most of them ringable-the largest collection in the world. Last week proud Mr. Spear moved them all into his 34th Street Manhattan stores for their first public exhibition. At week's end he had not yet been induced to let loose a tintinnabulation...
Died. The Maharaja of Patiala, 46, ruler of the largest Phulkian state, the premier power in India's Punjab, and one of the richest Indian princes; of kidney disease; in Lahore, India. A loyal supporter of Great Britain, he ruled some 1,600,000 people, had an annual income of about $2,500,000, wore a 21-strand pearl necklace valued at $5,000,000, enjoyed possession of the world's finest collection of emeralds, had a fleet of 21 Rolls-Royces, one senior and two junior maharanis...
...evening three weeks ago, guests arrived at a "charter day dinner" held in the gymnasium of Washington's Howard University, largest Negro university in the U. S. As they arrived they were handed copies of the Alumni Journal, published by the university's General Alumni Association. Three hundred copies were distributed before police routed the distributors. On the Journal's cover was a large portrait of bald, pince-nezzed, light-skinned Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, first Negro president of the 71-year-old institution, now serving his twelfth year, and beneath it in large letters: "The Case...
Professor Arnold Baumgarten, 58, part-Jewish director of Vienna's largest city hospital (1,000 beds), onetime head of the Austrian State health department...
...position again and one good way to forestall it is to make his $364,000,000 company less dependent upon labor. Since this is also the path of progressive technology, Tom Girdler found double delight last week in formally opening what Republic claims is the world's largest, fastest and most mechanized continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre pile in Cleveland's desolate Cuyahoga River valley, the new $15,000,000 plant can turn out 70,000 gross tons of steel a month, but it employs a maximum of 2,000 men. And under last week...