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...your interesting article (Oct. 24) describing Xavier University, first U. S. Negro Catholic college, New Orleans, appears the statement: "Many a white Southern college would look shabby beside Xavier, with its solid copper gutters, chromium equipment in the laboratory...
...Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams''; Social Worker Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House), by an LL. D. from Swarthmore College; Copper Man Daniel Cowan Jackling, by the John Fritz Gold Medal (top engineering award) for making 2% copper ore profitable; Film Actress Greta Garbo, by an open letter asking that Sweden's King Gustaf give her a gold medal as one of Sweden's "foremost ambassadors...
Died. William Wright Armstrong, 67, Salt Lake City Banker, board chairman of National Copper Bank; in Salt Lake City...
...whiskered Senator from Montana, taught his son to spend liberally. The elder Clark built a 130-room house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, equipped it with a $3,000,000 art collection, a $120,000 gold dinner service. Senator Clark was a mule-skinner before he made his copper fortune. Son William had earlier advantages, took to them more quietly. He was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia, acquired a love for books which has led to one of the most important private collections in the world. Old Senator Clark spent three months each year trying...
...twelve new nations from three old empires . . . the increase of standing armies from two to five million men . . . revolution in China . . . agitations in India . . . Russia's dumping . . . gigantic overproduction of rubber in the Indies, of sugar in Cuba, of coffee in Brazil, of cocoa in Ecuador, of copper in the Congo, of lead in Burma, of zinc in Australia, of oil in the U. S. . . . new wheatlands in the Argentine, new cotton lands in Egypt . . . revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the Argentine, Peru, Ecuador, Siam . . . repudiation of debts.. . . Declared President Hoover: "The United States did not bring this...