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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan has, indeed, long been a firm friend of Britain, and never was the staunchness of his friendship better shown than when British reputation was put to a test in the early months of the World War and was being besmirched by those in his own country whose origin and interests made them naturally zealous to damage it. Credit meant much in those days, but the help to Britain of the House of Morgan was unwavering and invaluable...
...earthquake of moderate intensity was recorded at the Harvard Seismography Station Saturday morning, beginning at 2.14 o'clock. The distance from Cambridge is computed as approximately 4300 miles and the time at the origin at 2.03 o'clock. This distance from Cambridge crosses several active seismic areas including one on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, one in South America. Italy and Central Europe. The exact location cannot be determined from the records of a single station, however the character of the record in this case, suggests South America as the probable source of the disturbance...
...interesting to learn the origin of the musical abilities of Chico and Harpo. Although they play practically every instrument, they have never taken an actual lesson...
...Vergil's Creative Art", this year being the two thousandth anniversary of Vergil's birth. Professor Conway will speak in the large lecture hall of the Fogg Museum at 8 o'clock. He will also lecture, as Charles Eliot Norton lecturer to the Archeological Institute of America, on "The Origin of Christmas", this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock at 28 Newbury Street, Boston...
...Secretary Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins* of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to denounce: "... Amazing lack of scholarship. . . . The simple fact is, that in defiance of every scrap of historical evidence, about which, in reality, there is not the slightest ambiguity, he [Bishop Manning] faithfully follows a tradition which took its origin not from Jesus