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...that "[God] . . . hath made of one blood all nations . . ." (Acts 18:26), some disbelieved. So did an unnamed Jew dying in London last week for lack of blood transfusion. Resolutely he preferred to die rather than let Gentile blood, available on the spot, sully the blood of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob...
...Allen, instructor in English: Charles Louis Kuhn, instructor in Fine Arts: Bruce Campbell Hopper '24, lecturer on International Relations and tutor in Government; Talcott Parsons, instructor in Economics and tutor in Sociology and Social Ethics; Donald Holmes Wallace '24, instructor in Economics; Hugh Langdon Elsbree, instructor in Government; John Jacob Glessner, 2nd '25, instructor in English, and Chairman of the Library Committee of Adams House; Dwight Westley Chapman, Jr. '27, instructor in Psychology...
...Saloon League announced that his organization would raise $5,000,000 to spend during the coming year-$3,500,000 more than it spent last year. He also hinted that a "committee of 15 industrialists" might be formed to match the prestige of the Wet du Ponts and John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other names: Senator Arthur Capper, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Admiral William...
Barbara Munro Schurman, 65, relict of the late Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University, onetime (1925-29) Ambassador to Germany; of pneumonia; in Bedford...
...General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who started his march to Washington in 1894 with a band of 100 men and a bill proposing that Congress issue currency for road improvements under direction of the Secretary of War, arrived in Manhattan, said he was going to Washington to petition Congress once more. "It's the same old bill," said he, "and the American people are still as dumb as beetles...