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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Caracas to Maracay, where the old Dictator, now 72, holds court on his model farm, a Latin-American George Washington at a tropical Mt. Vernon. Seated under his favorite rubber tree, the blue-spectacled Dictator listened to flattering, impassioned pleadings. At length he relented, partially. No, he would never be President again, not he, but he would remain Commander-in-Chief of the Army, if that would please his people...
...less. As it happened, the shorter duration in the Philippines was more than offset by better weather. In Sumatra there was clear weather for the necessary half-hour, but some of the expeditions on the Malay Peninsula failed entirely. There should. however, be photographs good enough for valuable comparisons. Never before have photographs of an eclipse been taken at periods of a half-hour or more apart. If such photographs now exist they will show whether the flamelike projections of the corona change during that period. Then, significant inferences as to the nature of the corona may be drawn...
...still on Park Avenue. His galleries have never been open to the public, though once he took his collections en a nationwide, personally-conducted exhibition-tour. Post-War conditions injured the Hamilton Philippine interests. From time to time lately some painting has been sold. But the Hamilton collection remains among the nation's best...
Collector Hamilton has aided in the education of perhaps 100 school and college boys. They never know the identity of their benefactor, all transactions take place through a third party. Once a month they write letters describing their progress to Collector Hamilton, addressing him as "Dear Friend...
...Congressmen, financiers, tycoons of one kind or another. A non-partisan in politics, he knows many a politician, spent much time on the long distance telephone during both the Kansas City and Houston nominating conventions. He does not, however, meet any of his friends on golf courses. Mr. Ungerleider never had a golf stick in his hand. And of this eccentricity he is extremely proud...