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...great honor," mumbled Immortal No. 27, receiving the news in a barber's chair at Fort Worth, where he now manages a minor-league ball club. But Rogers Hornsby might well have pondered the caprices of his career. For the very traits that made the Rajah a spectacular player lost him job after job as manager. Aggressive, independent, intolerant of advice, he made no effort to endear himself to his employers...
...beliefs in World War I, announced from California that he had changed his mind: "Since the war began, I have felt that I could not go on being a pacifist. If I were young enough to fight I would do so." Visiting in England, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, "White Rajah" of Sarawak (Northwestern Borneo), contributed 1,000,000 Malayan Straits dollars (about $470,000) to help the British Government...
...Sarawak, an independent State in Borneo, is governed by the pure-British heirs of Sir James Brooke, who became its first Rajah...
...team composed of comely Miss Ila Sircar, associate general secretary of the Student Christian Movement in India; Dr. P. C. Hsu, University of Shanghai professor; Dr. Gonzalo Baez Camargo, Mexican Methodist leader. In Detroit, heading West, were Miss Minnie Soga, Bantu social worker in South Africa; Dr. Rajah Bhushinam Manikam, Lutheran secretary of India's National Christian Council; Dr. Hachiro Yuasa, "Christian Pacifist," onetime president of Japan's Doshisha University...
Coolidge and Hoover were in the White House, and no ill-advised legislation was rushed through without consulting the Chamber of Commerce. It was the era of great athletes: Bobby Jones, Red Grange, Bill Tilden, Cochet, Howie Morenz, Eddie Shore at his best, the Babe, the Rajah, Man o' War. It was a period of cocktail parties and three day parties. It was gilded, vicious, but a hell...