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...learning that his brother is ministering to a native tribe with a storehouse full of diamonds. There he teams up with Slick Latimer to kill the good doctor and replace him. His true identity and devious intentions eventually reveal themselves to Nyoka, who, with the aid of Aviator Jack Stanton and his pal, Curly, manages to turn the diamonds into safe U.S. dollars after assuring the natives that the cash will be used to establish a medical foundation to improve their health...
...dogged persistence the heroine at last finds the diamonds. While she transports gasoline (cleverly distilled from natural jungle oils) to Jack Stanton's plane (which will fly the diamonds to safety) in a grass basket suspended from a cable across a treacherous ravine, the basket's supports are shot away from the cable pulley. Undaunted, she grasps the pulley with her bare hands and completes the slide with her precious cargo...
...Frank Stanton Cawley '10, associate professor of Scandinavian Languages and tutor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, died of a heart attack in Princeton, N. J. Saturday...
...fashioned ear trumpet which she aimed like a blunderbuss at the people she questioned. She discovered that only seven occupations were open to U. S. women: domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted to listen to the proceedings from behind a screen. They walked down Great Queen Street that night, boiling mad, resolved to return to the U. S. and launch a holy...
...Congress was not quite in the dilemma of the Prohibition Party after the adoption of the 18th Amendment: What to fight for? But it faced a comparable problem of having achieved its obvious ends and of trying to find out the best uses of its power. In 1848, Elizabeth Stanton called a convention of woman's-rights seekers that adopted a Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence: "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny...