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...patronesses include the Mmes. Norton Campbell, Ralph Baker, Joseph H. Beale, G. K. Gardner, Sheldon Glueck, Eldon R. James, Calvert McGruder, Edward M. Morgan, Josef Redlich, W. A. Seavey, Edward S. Thurston, Sam B. Warner, and Miss Emily Williston...
When what the world supposed to be the firm of Lenin & Trotsky was disrupted by Lenin's death (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924) it was no easy task for Secretary Josef Stalin of the Communist Party to oust Trotsky and make himself Dictator...
...same day Poland's walrus-mustached de facto Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, benignly approved a treaty signed in Berlin by Polish Ambassador Josef Lipski and German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath. If ratified and observed in good faith by both nations, this new ten-year non-aggression pact ends for that period the possibility of war over the "Polish Corridor Question." It pledges Germany and Poland for the next decade "under no circumstances" to "proceed to the application of force," to settle mutual disputes...
...philosophy Harvard has religious-minded William Ernest Hocking, 60, profound Alfred North Whitehead, 72, one of the three "geniuses" whom Gertrude Stein has known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...
Paderewski's diplomacy at Versailles and his struggle to harmonize Poland are matters of history. When for unity's sake he relinquished the premiership, left fighting Josef Pilsudski in command, the world had no idea that it would soon be hearing Paderewski the pianist again. But Paderewski's energy has always been phenomenal and his fortune had been all but lost on Poland...