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...Iowa's Senator Brookhart; 3) $145 worth of tax views from Illinois Representative Keller; 4) $116 worth of "The American Post-office in Colonial Days" from New York's Representative Mead; 5) $520 worth of "Pressing National Questions" from Wisconsin's Representative Nelson; 6) $290 worth of ''Scots and Scottish Influence in Congress" from South Dakota's Senator Norbeck; 7) $58 worth of "Economy in Government" from North Carolina's Representative Bulwinkle...
Died. Kenneth Grahame, 72, Scottish writer of children's stories (The Golden Age, The Wind in the Willows); of old age; in Pangbourne, England. For ten years (1898-1908) he was secretary of the Bank of England...
...year 1929, I paid a very delightful visit to a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons in Constantinople. There was a banquet and facing me on the other side of my table was a medium-sized, modest man of cheerful, friendly and unassuming manner who did not use tobacco. We talked through an interpreter who sat at his side. I was very much interested to learn that this very modest gentleman with whom I was talking was General Kemal, the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War. General Kemal the defender, when introduced, explained that while...
...Subscriber Wonders henceforth beware of the exceedingly modest, middle-sized man who sat across from him at a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons' banquet in Constantinople (now Istanbul). There is only one "General Kemal the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War" and he is today the Dictator of Turkey, Mustapha Kemal Pasha...
...present University of London includes some 37 institutions scattered about the city. Among these are King's College, founded in 1828, and University College which Scottish Poet Thomas Campbell. Lord Brougham, Philosopher Bentham and others established in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum, in 1826. Poet Robert Browning and Economist John Stuart Mill studied at University College. Though the University of London has 20,000 students (more than Oxford and Cambridge combined), it is little known to Londoners, had no athletic field until a year ago. It now has brave plans for an entirely new site, also in Bloomsbury, where...