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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eager to crowd about his table. As they poured their wine, he poured his pearls on the table, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. He taught them beauty in gems and they bought for their women. Some began to buy for investment, for he proved how the values of precious stones mount. His son Michael had even a finer genius for matching jewels. Mrs. McKinley, wife of the one time President, loved to come to their store. She would be dressed in a slim-waisted jacket, with leg-of-mutton sleeves, an amiable gentlewoman whom Michael adored. One day she gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tears for Love | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

This evening at 8 o'clock in Pierce 110, H. S. Hall '19 will give an illustrated lecture on "The Mount Logan Expedition in the Yukon" under the auspices of the Engineering Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YUKON EXPLORER TO TELL MOUNTAINEERING FEAT | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

...under the auspices of the Canadian Alpine Club, a party of eight mountaineers, numbering in their party Mr. Hall, started up the treacherous slopes of Mount Logan. In the latter part of June they succeeded in reaching the summit and thus achieved the distinction of being the first to conquer the gales and icy blasts of Mount Logan, 19,800 feet in altitude and the second highest peak in North America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YUKON EXPLORER TO TELL MOUNTAINEERING FEAT | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

...guest rooms, the auditorium, the pictures of the founders of the country's scholastic hierarchy. There was a festive meal with more speakers of distinction: Dr. John H. Finley of Manhattan, President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia (representing Governor Byrd), President Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College. Among others present, though modestly silent, was John D. Rockefeller Jr. whose aid in the society's current million-dollar endowment drive has not been confined to signing checks but has included extensive travel and speechmaking from city to city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shrine to Learning | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...north of Owen's Lake, crossing the crest at Whitney Pass, and following just below the rim north to the reak, passable for horses when the snow is not took deep in some of the gulches. From here it was a short and easy climb to the top of Mount Langley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. E. Wolf Describes Trip to Vicinity of Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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