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...Learning, now 90% complete, was opened to two days of public inspection. Into a vast, four-story-high Commons Room, whose fluted columns and mosaic floor had just been finished, Chancellor Bowman invited representatives of his students, trustees and faculty to watch a belated cornerstone laying. With Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully and Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick looking on, the chancellor gave the stone a proud pat of cement and two husky seniors shoved it into place...
...soprano, Authors Damrosch & Guiterman interpolated a new character, Mary Rutledge, as Nolan's sweetheart. When Philip is tried by a military tribunal, she nervously wrings her hands in the back of the courtroom. When he is exiled, she follows him to Gibraltar. Boarding ship, Mary begs Stephen Decatur, who has Philip in custody, to let him command a gun against attacking pirates. Decatur gives in, a Berber battle song rings out, Mary makes her escape. In the fierce encounter that follows, Nolan is wounded, dies hearing Mary's imagined lullaby...
...Decatur, Ind., Mrs. Ed Newport, married six weeks, sued for a divorce on the grounds that her husband had so far refused to take a bath...
...Smaller sit-down strikes were disrupted by various means. In Philadelphia 60 sit-downers in a clothing factory were ousted by two policemen. In Decatur, Ill., 47 sit-downers in a wallpaper mill walked out when a sheriff threatened to oust them by force. In Los Angeles eleven sit-downers in a bakery quit, after the proprietor, with police aid, had prevented food being delivered to them and confined them for 48 hours to a diet of their own pies (twelve kinds...
Detroit's Ford may be the most publicized promoter of soybeans, but Reader Mead is right in rating Decatur's Staley as a potent longtime soybean processor. As a North Carolina farm boy, Professor Staley was first shown soybean plants by a returned missionary, never lost interest in the crop thereafter. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., makers of corn products, crushed 5,764 bu. of beans when it opened its bean processing plant in October 1922, crushed 317,202 bu. in March...