Word: seymour
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Tsining is the seat of a hospital and school maintained by the United States Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Last week, details finally emerged as to the recent murder of Hospital Superintendent Dr. Walter F. Seymour (TIME, May 7). It appeared that when Nationalist troops took Tsining recently on their victorious march to Tsinan (see above) a group of Nationalist soldiers rushed for the women's dormitory of the mission school with intent to possess themselves of its occupants. When kindly Dr. Seymour sought to bar the dormitory door with his slender body the soldiers shot him down...
...unidentified Chinese was reported last week to have shot through the heart the Rev. Dr. Walter F. Seymour, 65, superintendent of the U. S. Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Tsining, in southwestern Shantung Province. Details were completely lacking due to the chaotic conditions produced in Shantung by the Civil War (TIME, April 30) which continued last week to centre around Tsinan, the capital of the province. When told of the murder of Dr. Seymour, his daughter Ada, said at Milwaukee, last week: "I have been strengthening myself for some time to receive such news...
...Brooklyn, Albert Begleite, Seymour Cohen, Bernard Silver, George Zuckerman, Philip Ausuacks ran howling down a ^treet, pursued by a black bulldog. At the corner was a synagog; knowing well that the bulldog would never dare to follow hem inside, the five screeching urchins scampered toward its door and jostled .hrough. When the bulldog reached the door, he pushed it open with his flat snub nose and dashed inside. Barking furiously and growling in the solemn gloom, he cornered the five boys and bit each on one or both legs. After that, the bulldog, still snarling, was taken to the Board...
Died. Dr. Walter F. Seymour, 65, head of the Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Tsining, China; from a shot through the heart fired by a Chinese Nationalist soldier; in Tsining...
...machinery of the New York Stock Exchange last week clamped down on the soul of a boy three years out of high school. Seymour N. Sears Jr., 22, of Grantwood, N. J., "floor" telephone clerk for Miller, Hewitt & Dodge, brokers, became a partner of that firm and at the same time a member of the Exchange (the youngest so distinguished). Seats on the Exchange are currently worth $395,000. Young men who "buy" them at such prices raise the money by bonding themselves and insuring their lives in favor of their creditors, and give private noi.es for the sum. Since...