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Important Asiatic collections received were 22,000 specimens from Indo-China, 4,500 from Yunnan, 2,000 from western China sent by the Lu-Shan Botanical Garden, 2,500 specimens from Szechuan, China, sent by Nanking University, and 12,000 specimens from Fiji. The Arboretum distributed 42,445 specimens. Many thousands of specimens for shipment to Europe were held...
...rose in church politics, Father Joseph met the youthful Bishop of Luçon, Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, who was soon fondly calling his new friend "Tenebroso-Cavernoso"-the Dark and Deep One. When Richelieu became prime minister, he wrote that "next to God, Father Joseph had been the principal instrument of his present fortune." He begged His Grey Eminence to come to Paris and take the job he held until he died in 1638-"unofficial chief of staff for foreign affairs...
...feint to mask a new blow at Britain. Sir Stafford Cripps saw no hope for Britain in Russia: this week he said he would not return to Moscow. In Ankara British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen talked for an hour with Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoĝlu, trying to find out what was up. Turkey would be an important item in a Russo-German deal, and Turkey is a gateway to the Middle East and Suez...
...Chicago cap was a "million-dollar" contract he wangled with Pepsodent, which transformed Amos 'n' Andy from a sustaining show into a national institution in 1929. A great one for soap operas, he can still point with pride to such Trammell-promoted shows as Clara, Lu 'n' Em, Fibber McGee and Molly, Betty and Bob, Ma Perkins...
...isolationist groups admitted no official change: Lutherans, Catholics. German traditions played some part in Lu theran neutrality; but Lutherans of Scandinavian and Netherlands origin were no less stanchly isolationist...