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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cornell has honored only two men? the late Andrew Dickson White and David Starr Jordan. An unbaked tradition says that a cause for Cornell's not giving honorary degrees is the outcry that arose?in and out of Cornell but especially in?over Dr. David Starr Jordan's unflinching pacifism during the War. The fact is that Dr. Jordan, Cornell '72, was honored three decades before the War, in 1886, the same year as Andrew Dickson White, who helped Ezra Cornell found Cornell. Their university gave no honorary degrees between 1886 and the Jordan pacifism. Very early in its career...
...Significance is bitterly condensed in two sentences. At the Front, murder, "that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fell, becomes our highest aim." The other sentence. "Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades?words, words, but they hold the horror of the world...
...two men. Robert T. Neely, Orville A. Dickinson, opened an orange-juice stand in Manhattan. Each paid in $200. Next year, they opened four more stands, increased the capital stock. But thirsty people did not take kindly to street-corner orangeade. Business lagged. In 1915, Stockholder Dickinson, practically insolvent, transferred his share of stock for a debt cancellation to one Walter L. Titus, through Titus's brother. New-Stockholder Titus, little interested in the money-losing company, "wholly abandoned the enterprise," refused to contribute much-needed additional funds. Soon a new company, Burnee Corp., was formed-consisting of Stockholder...
...studied at Zurich and Kiev (he is a Doctor of Philosophy), taught school. He emerged from Revolutionary chaos as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine (1917-22). He has served on the Supreme Economic Council and has been Amtorg's chairman since 1927. Trader Bron is married, has two children, lives in Manhattan...
...accepted. Last week the Shipping Board opened bids on ships of the American Diamond and the America France Lines, which operate freighters between U. S. and French, Dutch and Belgian ports. Again Bidder Chapman was high. He offered $3,981,343.26 for 18 of the 23 ships in the two lines. This bid figured out at $25.38 a ton; other bids scaled down to as low as $14 a ton. No official acceptance of the Chapman bid was announced, but it appeared not unlikely that American Diamond and America France Lines would follow to where United States and American Merchant...