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Concluded the good Bishop with ardor: "The greatest single rubber operator in the world is a Chinese named Tan Kah-kee with headquarters in Singapore...
Manhattan rubbermen recalled that rubber tycoon Tan Kah-kee is a slender, old fashioned Chinaman some five feet two inches tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve...
...newest experiment in winter resorts has opened at the Harvard Club of Boston in the form of a quick-time tan applicator. Here in a little room with half a dozen cots the club members, clothed only in goggles, repose beneath the strong ultra-violet rays of a mechanical sun. In the corners of the room, to give a tropical effect, potted palms are distributed...
...standing of the Beta league is as follows: Won Lost Pct. Alpha Sigma Phi 6 0 1.000 Sigma Alpha Mu 5 1 .833 Lamda Chi Alpha 3 2 .600 Sigma Omega Psi 3 2 .600 Tan Epsilon Phi 2 3 .400 Delta Upsilon 1 4 .200 Phi Epsilon Pi 1 4 .200 Tan Delta...
...Defender is none other than Richard Dix, wearing a warm coat of California tan. An inevitably charming and good-natured outlaw, he cracks his long whip, shoots, stabs as if he were playing the role of a contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...