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...mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News. The resounding success of The Good Companions, his second novel, freed him from Fleet Street. Once a widower and twice married, he has a family of five daughters, one son. Pudgy, slow-spoken, pipe-smoking. Author Priestley is an apotheosis of the sensible self-made British author...
...Armenians charged with the Archbishop's murder. All of the defendants admitted that they were members of Tashnag, ultra-nationalist Armenian society which wants to throw off Soviet rule, re-establish the independent Armenian Republic which existed for four months in 1920 after the treaty of Sèvres had freed the land from Turkish tyranny. Witnesses testified that the pro-Soviet Archbishop was as good as dead when, on Armenian Day at Chicago's Century of Progress last summer, he refused to speak until an Armenian Republic flag had been removed from the stand. Forty-two witnesses testified...
...pistol shots that started the World War were fired on St. Vitus Day. When that day came round last week harassed King Alexander of Jugoslavia had harder work than ever to keep his subjects from celebrating with high glee the double murder that freed so many of them from Imperial Austria...
...accepts as valid some of the current charges against American education and in a quiet and persistent manner she will continue to improve her methods.'' His only major changes thus far have been an extension of the four-course plan by which high-ranking seniors will be freed from all course requirements in their last term, and an up-to-date pension and group insurance plan for his faculty. His announced objectives are a badly-needed new library building and more student scholarships. He is glad that two-fifths of Princeton's 2,500 students are earning...
There are no amendments to a treaty, but in 1901, after Cuba had been freed from Spain and pacified by U. S. arms, Senator Orville H. Platt* of Connecticut succeeded in having an amendment attached to that year's Army appropriation bill. On the strength of that amendment the following terms were written into the treaty later made with the new Republic of Cuba...