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Joseph Rochemont Hamlen '04 is a native of Portland, Me., where he returned, after leaving College, to enter the lumber business. In 1911 he went to Little Rock, Ark., to take charge of the manufacturing operations of his company in the South. He is chairman of the Arkansas Forestry Commission. In 1917, he went to Washington, D. C., to become assistant to the acting chairman of the executive committee of the American Red Cross with Eliot Wadsworth '98; and later assumed Mr. Wadsworth's duties while he the latter was in Europe. Hamlen returned to the South...
...impasse. Following the brief period of prosperity in 1919 the conditions of the miners had been steadily growing worse over a period of five years. Finally in August of last year further wage reduction became necessary in order to keep the mines going. But the workers had reached rock bottom already, and a Royal Commission was appointed while the government agreed to subsidize the industry...
...wake of the defeated provincial army which had looted the villages along the road and largely wrecked the inns. The country was much upset and bands of robbers were frequent. Happily they had but one encounter with bandits. On the North west trade route they discovered some hitherto unreported rock grottoes of the sixth century, A. D. Enough evidence was there found to establish the date, but the sculpture had been badly destroyed during the various Mohametan rebellions which have devastated that part of China. Their stay there was cut short by the unfriendly attitude of the villagers who regarded...
...business of this gathering was to consider ways and means of expanding and expediting news distribution, to hear Secretary of State Kellogg speak on foreign relations, and to elect as officers; Frank B. Noyes (Washington Star), president; Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune), first vice president; J. N. Heiskell (Little Rock, Ark., Gazette), second vice president. They reelected: Melville E. Stone (a former general manager) secretary, and Kent Cooper, able Hoosier, general manager...
...McGovern, of London University, and Dr. Julio Tello, Harvard-educated Peruvian archeologist, gathered scattered bones, bits of pottery and building stone; dug six yards down and found the red porphyry walls and courtyards of a city of unknown extent dating to 1000 B. C. Burial caverns, scooped into solid rock like the interior of flat-bottomed water-bottles with yard wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco culture of the Bolivian highlands. The Paracas city...