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President Stenio Vincent of Haiti called on "ouarized" Jean-Joseph Dauphin. Haitian doctors examined him and the ouarit bean. They suspect traces of cyanide in the bean, hope U. S. investigators will discover the cause of the transformation...
Black Haitian patriots hope that the man will turn black again. Otherwise, argued President Vincent, "if by virtue of the ouarit we were able to choose the Caucasian race, our history evidently would have no meaning to our descendants. Our legitimate pretension to march one day at the head of a great black civilization would fall by the wayside. . . . Henceforth, on this planet there would be nothing but white...
University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.) Rufus Cutler Dawes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Dean Guy Stanton Ford of the University of Minnesota Graduate School . . . . . . Litt.D. Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Secretary of Labor Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Henry Charles Taylor, member of the Laymen's Foreign Mission Inquiry. . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...contract to manage the Drake Hotel for $40,000 a year, plus living expenses for them and their families and 10% of all profits in excess of dividends. After $300,000 of back taxes had accumulated, the stockholders, including Architect Benjamin Marshall (of both the Blackstone and Drake), Vincent Bendix and the McCormick estate, put through a voluntary reorganization. Metropolitan Life extended its $4,000,000 mortgage and $180,000 in defaulted interest and loaned the hotel enough to clean up the taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their old contract calling...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet Litt.D...