Word: syria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interested not only in copper; he became president of the board of trustees of Robert College, Constantinople. His twin sons have divided between them his interests in copper and oriental education: Cleveland E. is vice-president of Phelp? Dodge; Bayard is president of the American University of Beirut, Syria.† Executive Cleveland E. Dodge is neither the Professional Executive nor the onetime factory hand. He is the Dynastic Executive, bred to his position. The Dynastic Executive is a U.S. rarity; rare also is the inherited ability of Cleveland E. Dodge...
...Syria. Another crusaders' castle, Krak des Chevaliers, is atop the Aloutie Mountains, near Tripolis, Syria. The place was captured from Kurds by survivors of the First Crusade (1096) and later, under the Knights of St. John, was an important guard of the road to Damascus. It is the best preserved of crusader fortresses, because natives during the centuries have dumped 50,000 tons of manure into its cellars and vaults. French diggers have found the masonry in excellent and representative condition...
...Lady Grace Hay-Drummond-Hay, formerly Grace Marquerite Lethbridge, is the young widow of the late Sir Robert Hay-Drummond-Hay, C. M. G., His Majesty's Consul General in Syria, whose second wife she became in 1920 when he was 74 years of age. With Karl H. Von Wiegand, Lady Drummond-Hay will keep Hearst papers in constant touch by radio with the progress of the trip...
Died. Valentine H. Muller, Manhattan exporter (Muller & Phipps [Asia] Ltd.); of gangrene, contracted in an automobile accident while crossing the Arabian desert; in Beirut, Syria...
Last week the august patrons of Surgeon Voronoff sent him forth, upon a yacht, for eastern Mediterranean waters. Officially he was on a mission to the French Mandate Of Syria, there to improve the wool yield of native goats by gland grafting, as he has already done with sheep in Algeria (TIME, Aug.11...