Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will have no part in such treachery!" as taking bribes from Japan, but Mr. Steele knows his War Lords, chose to stress as the most important Shantung factor the arrival of so many Nanking troops in the province that it was doubtful last week whether Han remained sufficiently master of his province so that he could choose whether to sell out. The Nanking troops had not come fresh and forward into Shantung from Central China but were retreating into it last week from the North, badly disorganized by the Japanese punishment they have taken. At latest dispatches Nippon...
...least cheerful places in the Middle West. Most exotic of the five novelettes is the somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character of the book is a remarkable native servant named Ramazini, whose dying German bwana (master) instructs him to deliver a collection of parrots to London. Against the sadistic treatment of a tramp steamer's first officer, Ramazini opposes first his extraordinary dignity, finally a lethal iron bar. Loving Memory, most ambitious, least successful of the five, is the story of a London newspaperman who discovers...
...Williams, James Phinney Baxter, 3rd, formerly professor of History and master of Adams House here, will be inducted as President as he listens to President-emeritus Lowell deliver the most important address of the occasion...
...induction ceremonies tomorrow will find Harvard well represented. At Williams, Dr. Baxter returns to head his alma mater after seven years here as master of Adams House and as professor of History. His congratulatory address will be given by another great Harvard figure, President-Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell. Morover, at Cornell, President Conant's speech will help present Dr. Day to his new charges. And to Yale also go Harvard's best wishes as Dr. Seymour replaces retiring Dr. Angell...
Agreeing with Holcombe on the speech in general but disagreeing with him as to what effect it may have on the neutrality legislation, Payson S. Wild, acting master of Winthrop House, called it "all right as far as it goes...