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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nitrates. Ten thousand square miles of sodium nitrate, important fertilizer, have been discovered in southwest Africa on both sides of the Elephant and Nosob Rivers. Said Professor Smeath Thomas of Cape Town University who made the report: "There is a strong resemblance to the conditions prevalent in Chile. . . . Profits should...
Aghast at the price rumor was Godfrey Locker-Lampson, M. P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the recently-ousted Baldwin Cabinet. His family had long owned the bust. He had lately sold it to a dealer for "just over $2,500." Said he: ''The firm . . . resold it, I understand, for a modest profit...
...Sculptor Houdon was chosen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as "the best [sculptor] in any of the European States," to do a statue of Washington. With Franklin he traveled to the U. S., stayed two weeks at Mount Vernon, took measurements, made plaster casts. He is said to have sought vainly for the desired facial expression until he saw Washington dismiss an avaricious horse trader...
...secede from Princeton, to found a new seminary to teach the ideals which Princeton would presumably no longer foster. More than 70 professors, preachers and elders attended. Prominent of course were Princeton faculty conservatives. Dr. John Gresham Macheru veteran of Princeton's doctrinal wars, made the opening address, said: "The old Princeton under this new board is doomed." Prof. Robert Dick Wilson told of the call from students for a school devoted to orthodoxy. Prof. Oswald Thompson Allis, editor of the Princeton Theological Review, advocated a Philadelphia suburban site for the new seminary, conveniently near the University of Pennsylvania...
Called "Voice of the Revolution," Mirabeau, with his loud tongue and sense of drama, was an incendiary orator who said daring things at crucial moments. To Louis XVI. snubbing his assembly, Mirabeau grimly retorted: "It is thus that kings are led to the scaffold...