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...Author. Thomas Mann, himself the son of a North German merchant, was born in 1875. Because of the wishes of his family, he spent a short time in the life insurance business, writing secretly at night. But he soon went to Italy for a year. On returning he became the editor of Sim-plicissimus (funny paper, now defunct). Buddenbrooks first appeared in 1901, when Mann was 26 years old. He now lives at Munich, is German correspondent for The Dial...
Captain Jenkins and J. W. Hammond '25, last season's mid-diamond pair, will naturally again have the call at shortstop and second base respectively. J. C. McGlone '26, L. O. V. Mann '25, J. E. Knowlton '26, and R. P. Bullard '24 are their most likely understudies. McGlone has, however, had experience in the pitcher's box, the outfield, and third base. He may be tried in any one of these positions...
...Commercial Union Assurance Co. The underwriters sought to recover their money on the basis of a confession of arson and conspiracy by Larsen's mechanic. But the confession extracted by detectives employed by a personal enemy of Larsen's, under threats of the application of the Mann Act, failed to impress the jury. The case aroused much interest in aircraft circles, involving as it did the reputation of a man prominent in the industry...
...Chairman, Joseph Humphrey Child of Westwood and Clark Hodder of Newton; George Wadsworth Burgess of Milton; Walter Leeds Chapin Jr. of St. Paul, Minnesota; Joe de Ganahi of White Plains, New York; Lewis Mills Gibb of New York City; Andrew Clarke Gunby of Sherman, Texas; Lloyd Onderdork Vernon Mann of Great Neck, L. I., New York; Charles Lawrences Peirson of Essex Falls, New Jersey; Boies Penrose 2d of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Otis Radcliffe Rice of Springfield; John Howland Ricketson 3d of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Eric Sandquist of Concord, New Hampshire; James Bogert Tailer Jr. of New York City; Lawrence Morris...
...promote it, should be the function of the national government. There is now no national supervision except for vocational and agricultural training. The rest is left to the states. But to leave the problem of education entirely to local communities has always proved a failure. That is why Horace Mann spent his life in fighting the district system in Massachusetts. Progress always results from enlarging the area from which support for education is drawn...