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Careful of their skins, the five delegates of the League of Nations Commission on Manchuria (headed by the Earl of Lytton) abandoned last week their announced intention of inspecting Northern Manchuria and taking testimony from famed Chinese General...
Died. James Lyle Mackay, first Earl of Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when...
...Harvard Medical School. Last week young Mr. Stillman, who married a Canadian backwoods girl and is father of a three-months-old daughter, was ready to receive his Doctorate in Medicine and to devote himself to free obstetrical service among the poor.* At the moment his friend, now Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson, 33, and no longer a lurching cripple, was opening a Manhattan clinic for the mending of people who, like himself, were spoiled in the rough process of being born. His clinic is part of Manhattan's Neurological Institute...
...wanted the disordered cripple for work until the late Herschell V. Jones, onetime editor of the Minneapolis Journal, got the boy a job in the University of Minnesota library. Under sympathetic direction of Librarian James T. Gerould, Earl Reinhold Carlson cataloged old manuscripts...
...library job carried on the boy's physical, mental and moral education. At the University of Minnesota he earned a bachelor's and a master's degree. When Librarian Gerould went to Princeton, he sent for Earl Reinhold Carlson, A.B., M.Sc., secured him a self-supporting job as instructor in bibliography. At a Princeton faculty tea, Instructor Carlson lost what small self-confidence he had gained when he dropped a cup before the embarrassed ladies. Princeton students cruelly avoided him. He was fast becoming a recluse again when Student "Bud" Stillman found him sprawled on the walk...