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...Princeton's tradition was taking a turn. Dr. John Grier Hibben, the gentle scholar who succeeded strenuously scholarly Woodrow Wilson in 1912, had retired. Into his place, part-time and ad interim, was coming a figure as interesting in the traditional academic scene as is onetime Morgan Partner Thomas Sovereign Gates who took charge of Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company?Prudential Life's Edward Dickinson Duffield of the Class of 1892, descendant...
...rambling palace of big, fun-making Prince Svasti, His Highness can be serious-as befits the father-in-law of the King. In grim earnest last week Prince Svasti discussed the situation facing Siam since diminutive King Prajadhipok staved off a revolution by abdicating as an "absolute sovereign," and, as "constitutional monarch," submitted to de facto rule of Siam by a group of Army officers...
...sovereign to every man for a souvenir," laughed Commander Quaglia...
...delegation which negotiated the Irish Treaty [in 1921] so I have had experience with Mr. de Valera. There is no one quite like him and this distracted world should be thankful that he is unique! [cries of 'Hear, Hear'] . . . . His demand is that Ireland be an independent and sovereign State associated with the British Empire but equally associated with any other empire. We cannot accept that! [tremendous cheer-ing]. . . . If we were to have anything like Mr. de Valera in a council of nations when we are trying to accommodate our difficulties then no business would ever be transacted...
...President Arthur Villiers Morton of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia; President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania; Director Edward Ray Weidlein of Mellon Institute of Industrial Research: one-time Senator George Wharton Pepper from Washington. They, with Mr. Donner. manage the new foundation...