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...action was taken on the chess team's request, but in regard to boxing, the committee referred the petition to the Student Council for its opinion. The reports yesterday were in the nature of an Associated Press Dispatch from New Haven, which read as follows...
...elevation of Cary Travers Grayson from Commander to Rear-Admiral in 1916 was at the special request of President Wilson, to give his personal physician appropriate rank. *A second son, John, was killed in a motor accident in 1926. The daughter, Josephine, was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1928. Philip, third son, is a sophomore at St. Lawrence College. Richard, youngest son, is in primary school...
...nastier mood. For this time the French envoy was acting for Rumania, and Rumania is anathema to all Red Russians, who consider that she stole Bessarabia from them while they were fighting the White Russians and the Allies in 1918. Worse still, the Rumanian note was an echo (by request) of Statesman Stimson's reminder that Russia must not steal anything from anybody. Mr. Stimson had managed to get less than a half dozen of the 57 Kellogg Pact nations to send such reminders, but in Moscow the joke was wearing very thin...
...friend, asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, "the man I know best in the Cabinet," somehow to ask the Soviets to put their Siberian representatives on the hunt, particularly those at the Wrangel Island meteorological station and on the ships Lipke and Stavropol. It was a ticklish request, for the U. S. and Russia have no diplomatic relations. Secretary Wilbur immediately asked the Soviet Government for aid, through its Washington information bureau. He also sent telegrams to Territorial Governor George Alexander Parks at Juneau, urging him to ask help directly from Soviet stations and ships which might...
Last year the Session extended over a period of six weeks, but as numerous business men felt that a shorter period would be more convenient for them, at their request the Session for this year has been shortened to a month's duration...