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Long an invalid, retired in 1916 from his 22-year presidency and three-year chancellorship, 80-year-old Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus, had no active part in Stanford's latter-day development. Yet when the Stanford trustees meet this week, they and Stanford's Grand Old Man will...
"I'm not prepared to say this country is ripe for such ideas now and still less for their execution. Therefore I shall not press such Bolshevistic suggestions but merely record them in order that I may some day have that supreme pleasure, if I live long enough, of...
When Veterinary White prepared to carry out his client's orders, Los Angeles stirred with sharp protest. The evening Herald launched a crusade to save the animals. A Mrs. Nancy T. White of Manhattan, visiting in Los Angeles, hired an attorney, who obtained a writ to prevent the execution...
"My own country, Japan, after many years' lingering over the question of weak and fluctuating currency situation decided on a return to the gold standard. ... No sooner had this courageous decision been put into execution, than the world over Depression became more pronounced and caught Japan with all its force...
*A sentence of more than a year rnakes a convict eligible for parole after one-third of its execution.