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After Herbert Hoover graduated from Leland Stanford University in 1895, he worked for two years with a mining engineering firm in the West. Then at twenty-three, he began his famous roving...
...Lawrence is bishop of Massachusetts and an ecclesiastical writer of national importance. He is chairman of the trustees of St. Mark's and Groton schools, and has been a Fellow of Harvard since 1913. Mr. Moors is the senior member of the broker firm of Moors and Cabot and president of the Public School Association. Mr. Perkins has practiced law in Boston since 1894 and is vice-president of the firm of Ropes., Gray, Boyden, and Perkins. Mr. Curtis is also a Boston lawyer. Mr. Smith was with the American Mission to negotiate peace as counsel to the Treasury Department...
Albert C. Ritchie was graduated from Johns Hopkins University at twenty, and from the law school of Maryland at twenty-two. Leaving law school in 1898 he practiced with a Baltimore firm. Through city solicitor and people's counsel and State Attorney-General the road led to the Governorship. He was elected first in 1920, and has been reelected twice. He has given the State an economical, business-like administration...
Disappointed but firm, King Mihai I advanced. "I'll show you how!" he volunteered. Grasping firmly the chubby wrists of Peter he sought to haul him close. Unimpressed, the future King of Jugoslavia practiced simple noncooperation until the King of Rumania gave up in disgust...
...Bertrand Russell, author of The Right to be Happy, wife of the English philosopher, was refused the privilege of speaking before the "mixed" Student Forum at the University of Wisconsin on the subject:."Should Women Be Protected?" This subject involved companionate marriage, in which Mrs. Russell is a firm and earnest believer. President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin had been consulted by the Student Forum and had approved of barring of Mrs. Russell (TIME...