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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubbornly, insistently President Alcala Zamora of newly Republican Spain has pressed Pope Pius XI to withdraw Spain's die-hard Royalist Primate. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo (TIME, June 29). In Vatican City last week this long, silent diplomatic struggle ended with a decorous item in Osservatore Romano, Papal daily...
...aged 22, he went to teach in China under Y. M. C. A. auspices, became attached to the. late great Dr. Sun and in 1927 turned up in Washington where he persuaded President Calvin Coolidge to recognize Nanking as the Government of all China...
...Twenty-three-year-old Paul Runyan, golf professional of the Metropolis Country Club, White Plains, N. Y.: the Metropolitan (New York) Professional Golfers' Championship; beating Gene Sarazen, who had 62 for the last 17 holes, 3 & 1 in the final; at Rockville Center, L. I., four days after he won the Westchester Open...
...impressionable Press found that he was a Professor of Philosophy and 60 years old. Not only that, he was a ninth lineal descendant of John & Priscilla Alden, author of a learned book, The Road to Culture * and repeatedly voted by students the most popular man of the N. Y. U. faculty. The only strange thing found in his history was his walking 15 years ago from Philadelphia to Manhattan, 90 mi. in 23 hr. 40 min. Editors telephoned, telegraphed, cabled and radioed last week for information on Professor Shaw's eminent non-whistlers. Pouting Premier Mussolini, despatches reported, whistles...
Died. Colonel Edward Alfred Simmons, 56. publisher & rail expert; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn. X. Y. He was president of Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp. (Railway Age, Airway Age, Boiler Maker) and of American Saw Works, and board chairman of American Machine Tool...