Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton, quoted in today's "Princetonian" from the May issue of the "Harvard Advocate," presents some very interesting material. The figures show that at Harvard, where there is an approximately equal number of prep school and high school men, and at Princeton, where prep school men overwhelmingly predominate, the latter win the larger share of social and athletic honors. At Dartmouth, on the other hand, where public school graduates predominate, they suffer no inferiority in college activities. Scholastically, at all three colleges, public school men excel, a situation explained by the fact that most graduates of private schools...
...Ridley had owned extensive property uptown as well as many an East Side tenement. In his bank was over $1,000,000 in cash. His will left $812,000 to relatives who had not seen him for years. A bequest of $200,000 was left Weinstein provided the latter survived him. Police medical examiners were hard put to tell which victim had predeceased the other. Since neither body was robbed, it was supposed that some obscure revenge had motivated the crime. A bootlegger's hideout, discovered deep in the same old building, darkened the mystery further. Old Ridley...
Washington gossips last week had Secretary of the Treasury Woodin out of the Cabinet. He had, they whispered, broken with President Roosevelt over the latter's currency inflation program pending in Congress. Was he not a "hard money'' man from New York? Had he not been absent from his office for days? How could he do less than resign...
...loan will be provided by British banks, not by the British Treasury or the exchange equalization funds. The latter will remain outside the operation. However, its efforts to prevent the increase in value of sterling will be temporarily eased, thanks to the buying of francs against sterling, which the French Treasury will require to be effected in order to utilize the product of the loan in France...
...coast after the withdrawing Japanese, reoccupying village after village. And before the coast troops' withdrawal could be interpreted as a grand Chinese victory, the Japanese right wing suddenly commenced a slashing inland attack on the Chinese troops of General Ho Ying-ching. 60 mi. from Peiping. The latter dug in against airplanes and siege guns and fought like alley cats. After an eight-day battle that cost China 4,600 admitted casualties, Japan occupied Nantienmen. For the first time Japanese officers admitted that Peiping might be the next objective, but insisted that no such advance would be made unless...