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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persons who have read the Hoover biography by his college-mate, Will Irwin*,know that Mr. Hoover was subject to croup when young and laid out for dead not long after his first birthday. Returning to life, he played vigorously with other small Midwesterners, including Osage pa-poosesf at Pawhuska, Okla., where his Uncle Laban Miles lived. Herbert trapped rabbits, learned to fish, read the Youth's Companion and Robinson Crusoe (secretly, for Quakers are strict) and when he was 11 went to live with another uncle, Dr. John Minthorn, in Newberg, Ore. His father and mother had died...
World Peace. To the Council on Foreign Relations, at a banquet in Manhattan presided over by John W. Davis, Secretary Kellogg expounded "The War Prevention Policy of the United States." He generalized on the subject of multilateral treaties to outlaw war in such a way as to inform Foreign Minister Briand of France-who at about that time was nibbling his pen in Paris over an answer to Secretary Kellogg's last note-that the U. S. will not consider any military alliance to prevent war, but only a peaceful compact, and that the U. S. does...
Engaged. Janet Phillips, socially able eldest daughter of Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr., Oklahoma & Pennsylvania oil & gas oligarch, onetime (1923-1927) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, and director of, among other companies, the Shell Union Oil Corp.; to Leander McCormick-Goodhart, U. S.-born, English-educated subject of H.M. King George V, now commercial secretary of the British Embassy at Washington...
Roscoe Pound, Hon. '20, Dean of the Harvard Law School, will address the Boston Ethical Society of Repertory Hall, 264 Huntington Avenue, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. His subject will be "Social Conditions and Modern Life...
...prose material includes two or three articles of varying length, subject, and merit; a story of considerable length on Latin America, the sea, revolution and a wop sailor with an O. Henry ending which is even less convincing than the rest of the story; and finally an essay on one of the minor incidents in the life of Alexander Pope, "Vendetta," by J. E. Barnett, which is probably the high light of the entire issue. It is a straightforward, readable account of Pope's literary feud with Lady Wortley Montagu--an account which is attractive chiefly, perhaps, because its pretensions...