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...last week the German people were among the ripest in the world for the surprise message suddenly delivered in Berlin by Colonel Lindbergh and promptly slapped by Chancellor Hitler onto the front page of his personal newsorgan Der Volkische Beobachter ("The Popular Observer"). Observed Charles Augustus Lindbergh, addressing a bounteous luncheon of the Aero Club...
...Japanese geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei should give a bounteous banquet at which their chosen Guest of Honor was the onetime Japanese Minister Akira Ariyoshi, newly elevated to the dignity of Japanese Ambassador to the Chinese Government...
...most lurid revelations, and the charges projected at him caused the hasty removal of his ponderous bulk from the New York bench. A patriarch among patriarchs, he had scattered largesse with a generous hand to kith and kin; the exact number of relatives to whom he flung the bounteous purse of the city pay-roll was declared, after investigation, to be 39. And the thirty-nine McQuades have occupied and will occupy a foremost place in the annals of municipal government in America, rubbing shoulders with their fellow townsmen, Tweed and Croker, Walker and Mugs O'Brien...
...welcome in the capital of my Empire the representatives of the princes, chiefs and people of India. ... I shall follow the course of your proceedings with the closest and most sympathetic interest; not, indeed, without anxiety, but with a great confidence. ... I pray that Providence may grant you in bounteous measure, wisdom, patience and goodwill...
Gifts. Because California is still comparatively young, few tycoons of the first water have yet appeared on her alumni roster. But three famed and wealthy California families have made her bounteous gifts. The late Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of the Hearstpapers' publisher) gave the Women's Gymnasium and many a scholarship. Across the stage of the famed Greek theatre runs the legend: THE GIFT OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. Two sons of Publisher Hearst, who also gave the Mining Building, matriculated at California: George and William Randolph Jr. From Banker Amadeo Pe ter Giannini (Bancamerica-Blair) came the Giannini Foundation...