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During and after the World War, Mr. Walter Runciman, as he was then, served under various Prime Ministers in such capacities as President of the Board of Trade, combined the Liberal fervor of a Gladstone with tireless practical energy, plus a modern grasp of economics. In 1930, when enormous shipping interests headed by the late Lord Kylsant and including the Royal Mail, faced scandal and collapse, Mr. Runciman stepped in to help unsnarl British shipping chaos by rapid, efficient reorganization...
...tests; furthermore, special grants of ?20 a year would be made to impoverished subalterns. This was capped with a new system of speeding the promotions of young officers, speeding the retirement of elderly officers. Mr. Hore-Belisha crowed: "These new measures insure that an army career throughout its various stages will now be possible for an officer without private means...
...Fukien Christian University in Foochow, Cheeloo University in Tsinan, University of Nanking and Ginling College in Nanking, and St. John's University, University of Shanghai, Soochow University and Hangchow Christian College in the Shanghai area. This does not include Rockefeller Foundation's Peiping Union Medical College, various Catholic institutions (European as well as U. S.-supported...
...said he had had various of his administrative agencies draw up a statement of the South's economic handicap and shortcomings. He wanted the 23 Southern gentlemen to examine and discuss this, restate it if they liked until it represented "the South's own best thought." Then he would present it to the Congress. To guide the Southern gentlemen's deliberations he detailed Lowell Mellett, director of his National Emergency Council...
Batopilas, Mexico, lies on a narrow shelf of land in a narrow valley in western Chihuahua, 350 miles south of El Paso, 300 miles north of Mazatlán. There, in the summer of 1880, five-year-old Grant Shepherd arrived with his mother, four sisters, two brothers, various relatives, two nurses, a doctor, four dogs. His father was manager of the ancient silver mines whose 70 miles of workings honeycombed the hills. The family had come overland from Washington, D. C., by train, wagon and pack mule, to make their home in Batopilas...