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...fezzed President Khalid Sheldrake of the Western Islamic Association touched her hand, said: "I give thee the name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." Then he sat down with his convert to a grilled chop & boiled potato. When Daughter Gladys of the late Sir Walter Palmer (Huntley & Palmers) married His Highness the Tuan Muda Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, brother and heir presumptive of the Raja of Sarawak,* in 1904 she was a Protestant. Later she became a Christian Scientist, then a Catholic. Owner of the tunic of Mohammed himself (valued at $1,750,000), she decided to embrace...
Models and plans of all four of the apostles were shown at the Modern Museum last week and with them the work of several of their U. S. disciples: Howe & Lescaze, Richard J. Neutra. Bowman Bros., and the recent convert Raymond Hood. Of particular interest were a Howe & Lescaze model of an ideal tenement, built on stilts to save the cost of cellar excavating; and Raymond Hood's elaborate model of a 21-story apartment tower for the country, designed to occupy the centre of a large co-operative garden...
...least. ¶ Still to be settled is the interest rate on these frozen loans. Foreign banks protest that they cannot charge less than they must pay their own domestic borrowers. All these interest rates vary. ¶ Banker Wiggin's international committee was most anxious to persuade creditors to convert cash advances to German banks into ten-year 6%, notes. As bait, German banks have agreed to deposit special security with a trustee to protect these notes...
...McAdoo argued that the next war would "convert the civilized world into a madhouse." He chided the allied powers for not keeping their disarmament promises to Germany, warned that the U. S. could not safely purchase Europe's disarmament with War debt cancellation, viewed the Republican tariff with alarm...
More than twenty years ago the Governing Boards of the University had decided to convert the then existing Lawrence Scientific School into a graduate school. It was not until someone noticed that the Gordon McKay bequest, which had just been received at the time, mentioned that the fund must be "kept accessible to pupils who have had no other opportunities of previous education than those which the free public schools afford" that the impossibility of this step was realized. Thus it was that the school continued as part of the college, with its own graduate department attached...