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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking out of my window at Winthrop Hall one midwinter morning to find the ground under a foot or two of snow, the trees grey with frost, no pathway or roadway swept, and one small gas street-lamp the only reminder of town life. It was a momentary vision of the vanished village of Cambridge: a moment affording a rare memory these days. To escape to the country now one must travel for thirty minutes in train or motor...
...last week a new obstacle was presented. Five members of the Census Committee sent word they had the influenza-Washington's Johnson, Pennsylvania's Swick, New York's Jacobstein, Michigan's Clancy and White of Kansas. Wisconsin's Peavey and others were out of town. Without a quorum the committee could not act. For the umpteenth time Reapportionment was postponed...
Affluent indeed would be a community where out of 20,000 Jews not one was poor. When last fortnight the municipal council of the little Polish town of Bydgoszcz claimed such prosperity, rejected a $100,000 legacy left to the town's poor jews because there were no poor Jews, the potent, ubiquitous Jewish telegraphic agency sent a correspondent, investigated...
Milan, neither seaport nor lake town, viewed with alarm increasing numbers of commercial hydroplanes which dotted the sky above the city, but never descended. Enterprising Milanese therefore chose to build an artificial lake where seaplanes may alight. Surrounding will be hangars, offices, hotels. But already, like a huge glittering coffin, the oblong water field waits for hydroplanes...
...Warburg family derives its name from Warburg, a town in Westphalia, where Warburgs lived as long ago as 1400. At some time during the Sixteenth Century the family moved to Hamburg. Here, in 1798, was founded M. M. Warburg & Co. Since the founding of the Warburg firm-130 years ago-a son of the Warburg family has always headed the House of Warburg; no person not a Warburg has ever reached a dominant position. Comparatively, the Morgans are parvenus...