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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...item in the dispatches is revealing in its matter-of-factness. "Both sides are looting and making heavy extortions from the populace." There have probably been few cases in history in which war has been so much at the expense of the inhabitants as in the struggles in modern China, and the stream of refugees and emigrants to the distant but more tranquil Manchuria will probably be greater than ever this year. There the international competition is still present to add to the complication, as is shown by rumors of Russian generals or Japanese money backing one or the other...
...greatest interpreter of modern times,'and perhaps of any age, was Gustave Henri Camerlynck. Death found him, last week, in Paris, five days after he had taken to bed with influenza. As Chief Interpreter of the Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the First Dawes Committee, Professor Camerlynck received the personal thanks of such statesmen as David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. He was to have interpreted for the new Second Dawes Committee (see col. 2). As illness stole upon him last fortnight, Professor Camerlynck interpreted, for the last time, between Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France...
...years Alfred Stieglitz fostered the careers of leading modern painters, such as his second wife, Georgia O'Keeffe,† and water-colorist John Marin. And for years Alfred Stieglitz has been studying beauty with his cameras...
April 4--"Modern Steam Machinery", Professor C. H. Berry...
...March 1--Modern Swedish Architecture...