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...Holland McTeyeire had extracted from his wife's cousin-in-law, "Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, a $500,000 endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee's supreme court. Soon Vanderbilt's were the first Southern classrooms to hear about Evolution and modern geology. Armed with several millions more from the Vanderbilts and the General Education Board, Chancellor Kirkland replenished his faculty, secured in 1919 the General Education Board's then...
Elected. Maurice Duperrey, French industrialist and linguist (French, Spanish, English, German, Italian, Esperanto); to the presidency of Rotary International; at the 28th annual convention in Nice. Backed by France's No. 1 Rotarian, genteel President Albert Lebrun. Maurice Duperrey breaks the longtime U. S. grip on Rotary International's presidency. Rotary-International's immediate objective: improved Franco-German relations...
...Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. it was caused by her eagerness to perform creditably at the launching of her husband's newest yacht. Last week, in the salty little city of Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived. Taking a firm grip on a ribboned bottle of champagne, she swung it briskly against the bow of what, in the Bath Iron Works, had theretofore been merely Hull No. 272. Cried she with faultless diction: "I christen thee Ranger." The hull slipped smoothly down its chute, flopped into the water, stern first, with a loud...
Through the bare corridors of the House Office Building one day last week padded an alert young German shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...
Nineteen enthusiasts participated in the tournament which brought out, besides the fact that the Yardlings have some real Pong luminaries, the proof that the penholder grip has far reaching possibilities. Always frowned on by champion table netmen, this grip showed itself to be equal to the regulation clutch...