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Died. Brand Whitlock, 65, author, onetime (1919-22) U. S. Ambassador to Belgium; following a bladder operation; in Cannes, France. Reporting in Chicago and law in Toledo interested him in politics, led to his election in 1905 as a reform mayor of Toledo. In 1913 he was appointed Minister to...
The Library which will be part of the department of Legal Medicine of the Medical School, has been collected by Mrs. Lee and contains many rare volumes, including" Tractatus de Veneris," by Petrus d'Abano, Mantus, 1473; "De Proprietatis Rerum," by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Rouen, 1512; "De Stultifera Navis," by Sebastian...
Against him Tsankoff conspired successfully in 1923, and his overthrow was followed by his execution. Two serious Communist revolts were followed by even more severe measures of repression than usual, until at last even the king protested against the activities of his cabinet. The more conciliatory policy followed since 1927...
Down to Union Square went 70 Tammany district leaders, half of them women. Into the neat Georgian Wigwam they marched and upstairs to the executive committee room. Old John Curry was permitted to speak before his execution. He recalled his lifelong services in the Hall (in return for which, for...
Aware that there existed no better publicity than such atrabilious statements and sincerely, gloriously angry, Manhattan's two great Bohemian art societies opened simultaneous rival shows last week. The Independents were organized in 1917 by John Sloan, one of the best of U. S. etchers, to emulate the no...