Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai's International Settlement, which the Japanese would like an excuse to take over, Japan's consul general, Yoshiaki Miura, paid a call on Cornell S. Franklin, Chairman of the Settlement's Municipal Council. For 17 months since Japan took Shanghai, said Mr. Miura, anti-Japanese newspapers in Chinese and English had been publishing matter highly offensive to Japan. It would be nice if they stopped. In a noteworthy display of the better-part-of-valor, Chairman Franklin "agreed to take appropriate measures"-suppress them...
University of Tampa is a small institution, eight years old. Recently its president, John Harvey Sherman, was surprised to receive a visit from Baron Edgar von Spiegel, a World War submarine commander, now German consul general at New Orleans. Their conversation had not gone far before it appeared to Mr. Sherman that the Baron had come to make a highly dishonorable proposal: that the university establish a German professorship with Nazi money, the professor and textbooks to be chosen by the Baron. Mr. Sherman ordered the Baron to get out of his office before he called a sheriff...
Believing the story too good to keep, Mr. Sherman told it to the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges, meeting in Memphis, and to the House Dies Committee. By last week, the affair had stirred up not only Tampa and Florida but the whole South, for Mr. Sherman was quoted as saying that Baron von Spiegel had boasted there were plenty of other universities (presumably in his jurisdiction-eight Southern States) who were not too proud to take German gold...
Most amusing disclosure: a tutoring-school pupil last term was Caspar Griswold Bacon (Harvard '08), onetime Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and now both a special student at Harvard and a member of Harvard College's Board of Overseers. Mr. Bacon, taking a course in American Constitutional Government, crammed at Wolff's and at midyear...
...Seattle's churches. Unconsidered among these bigwigs sat an uninvited guest -an obscure, churchless Congregational minister, Rev. Louis E. Scholl, 62. As he listened to the invocation by a Roman Catholic priest and a speech on peace and democracy by Major General John F. O'Ryan (retired), Mr. Scholl was outwardly calm. Inwardly, however, he seethed with secret resolution. When at last the dean of Seattle's Episcopal Cathedral announced that a benediction would be pronounced by the President of the Seattle Council of Churches, up jumped Mr. Scholl...