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...King George. Her eldest son had just reached the age of 42. He celebrated by creating Queen Mary a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order founded in 1896 by Queen Victoria. Her Majesty received this decoration from His Majesty for her "personal services to the reigning sovereign...
...Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Judge of Agama, lineal descendant of the Prophet, had ascended to enjoy the limitless quantities of gold, jewels, silks, dates, rice, spitted lamb and beautiful women which await the Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute of his 500,000 Moro subjects, plus his pension from the Philippine Government, plus his land rent from British North Borneo Co. With this wealth the Sultan kept a primitive court where he enjoyed the favors of scores of wives...
...King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde. Chief greeter was Iceland's 35-year-old Premier Hermann Jonasson, who led his Icelandic sovereign to a round of dinners, automobile trips, state council meetings and the signing of six years' laws...
Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) President Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins University LL.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania. .. .LL.D. President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Club Federation of America. . .M.A. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago LL.D. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories D.Sc. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison. .. .Litt.D. Historian George Macauley Trevelyan.Litt...
...THOMAS SOVEREIGN GATES: DOCTOR OF LAWS, of Philadelphia, President of the University of Pennsylvania since 1930. "An eminent business executive who heeded the call of his alma mater and placed his talents at the disposal of the learned world...