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...contracts* for $13,500 in 4½ days. A Rubber Exchange seat was sold for a new high record: $6,600. A cablegram from London was responsible for the crash. Premier Stanley Baldwin had let it be known that the Stevenson Act restricting British rubber production in Malay states, Straits Settlements and Ceylon might become inoperative at some time after...
Professor Roorbach has just returned from a year in the Far East, where he studied economic conditions in Japan, China, the Dutch East Indies, the Malay States, Siam, India, and the Philippines. The year's work, which he has just completed, was sponsored by the Harvard Bureau of International Research, and the Business School...
Thus ends the play. In the intervening hour or so is spun the bitter story of a planter's lonely wife on the Malay Peninsula. There is no moral pointed, except perhaps that love sometimes dies young and for no reason. Leslie Crosbie was not a wholly vicious woman. Throughout the story, which ends in her confession that she shot her lover Hammond because he was living with a Chinese woman, she strangles truth lest her husband find out her guilt and the discovery break his heart. After the first few moments her every move is to spare from...
...Since the extinction of the Australian natives, Dutch New Guinea very probably is able to boast, the most primitive peoples still in existence", declared P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has recently returned from a sojourn in the Malay Archipelago where he was doing anthropological research under the auspices of the Peabody Museum. "New Guinea," Putnam went on to say, "In its interior is a country even less known than the interior of Africa and in its mystery rivaled only by the wilds of Brazil...
...linguistic feature is an interesting one," said Putnam. "With a focus at the Malay Peninsula the great Malay-Polynesian group of languages is spoken west to Madagascar, and east of New Guinea to Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and all the islands of Polynesia. But in the unattractive interior of New Guinea, untouched by the conquering Malay speaking peoples, are the Papuans, who speak about sixty languages, related neither to the Malay-Polynesian, nor to each other...