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...Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad was not present, it being an old Hyderabad tradition that "the Sovereign is too precious to his people ever to leave India." Actually the stingy Nizam, said to possess a miser's horde of $500,000,000 in gold apart from other wealth totaling $2,000,000,000, is not exactly his people's joy, much less that of his ministers. One of these harassed statesmen, when asked, "Why do you always arrive at the Palace in a Ford?" replied, "I am afraid that His Exalted Highness might consider my Rolls Royce a present...
Citizens of many a State and city went to the polls last week to record in off-year elections their respective sovereign wills. Most significant results...
...long ribbons tied by a bow marked the centre of the span and the boundary of two sovereign States. Governor Roosevelt grasped one end of the bow, Governor Larson the other. The ribbons parted. A police lieutenant fell on his face, in a heart attack. A patrolman fainted. Two schoolboys roller-skated across the bridge from the Manhattan side, the first passengers from New York. A New Jersey woman pushed her baby carriage to Manhattan, first passenger from her State. The bridge was open...
Whatever the faults of America's present system of university education, it must be admitted that nowhere--save perhaps in Scotland--is there so general a demand for education, so universal a faith in its sovereign power of ministering to success. America has about 920,000 college and university students. There were about 145 colleges and universities under public control, 520 under private control and 260 junior colleges in the United States in 1926, according to The World Almanac. The value of their property alone, in 1927, was estimated at $2,413,748,981. The spiritual returns from this investment...
...Savings Bank, Germantown Savings Bank. Every institution in the city was calling in its resources as fast as possible. A committee of 22 prominent men published an appeal in the newspapers pleading with the people to have faith in their banks. Among the appeal's signers were: Thomas Sovereign Gates, president of University of Pennsylvania; Dennis Cardinal Dougherty; Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive; General William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania R. R.; Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis; Mayor Harry Mackey...