Word: townley
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Last week the Department of State was moved to issue a public warning against a new international racket. By smooth-tongued "agents," many U. S. citizens have been convinced that they are heirs to large British estates ?the buccaneering gold of Sir Francis Drake, the "Blake millions," the "Townley estate" et al. To get these fortunes out of "Chancery," the "heirs" were duped into paying the racketeers thousands of dollars in "legal fees." Letters from some 300 would-be inheritors have swamped the U. S. Consulate in London...
Professor Stetson plans to return by way of the Mediterranean and Europe, and will arrive in Cambridge early in March. During his absence, Professor S. D. Townley of Leland Stanford University will take over Professor Stetson's work at the University...
...committee consisting of seven undergraduates to represent the University at the World Court conference in New York tomorrow. We urge a strong Harvard representation. The committee on organization is L. Fox, chairman, F. Bancroft, J. W. Easton, A. Z. F. Wood, C. Rose, F. Coleman, and W. W. Townley. An advisory committee was also appointed consisting of H. P. Van Dusen '20, A. Leitch '24, and L. T. Merchant '26, chairman of the Senior Council...
Professor Townley was graduated from the University of Wisconsin and has been professor at Stanford University since 1918. He has also studied at the Universities of California. Berlin, and Munich. From 1903-07 he was in charge of the International Latitude Observations at Ukiah, California...
Professor Townley is the author of about 100 articles in astronomical and seismological journals, and editor of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. He will serve during the absence of Assistant Professor Harlan T. Stetson...