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...Vacuum concentrates on lubricating oil (Gargoyle, Mobil oil), Standard of New York on gasoline (Socony) Abroad, Vacuum markets gasoline and kerosene in Egypt, parts of Europe, Africa, and Australasia, while noncompetitive Standard of New York does the same thing in the Near East, India, Aden, and the Orient...
...Dickinson Hall, latest of Princeton's overnight architectural feats, most of the classrooms and administrative offices will be housed. Undergraduates will be required to take certain preliminary courses in Sophomore year to orient them for their upperclass studies, which will be fully under the guidance of the School. Graduate courses will be provided. Operating in conjunction with the new School is the recently endowed Bureau of International Finance, under the direction of famed Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, whose succoring of commercially sick nations has taken him to Chile, Colombia, Bolivia. Ecuador, Poland, South Africa...
Appointed. Sir William Peel, 55, career administrator and adviser since 1897 in British Malaya (Penang, Singapore, Kedah, etc.); to be Governor of Hongkong, important British naval station and trade mart in the Orient (average annual trade $500,000,000). Sir William succeeds to the post and salary ($30,000) of Sir Cecil Clementi, promoted Governor of the Straits Settlements...
...Seattle, Wash., people who used to know and like famed Miss Nancy Anne Miller, now the Maharanee Sharmishthabai Holkar, wife of the ex-Maharaja of Indore (TIME, March 12, 1928), were shocked and indignant last week. They had supposed that she was honorably installed for life in Orient splendor, would never ride out again in anything less than an elephant's jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down...
...plan at Yale, will not be a part of the Quad system. Their dormitories will be separate, and students will make their applications for entry into the various Quads at the end of the first year. This is an excellent feature, which will give the undergraduates a chance to orient themselves before deciding which Quad to enter...