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...Staying in Washington as house guests of President and Mrs. Coolidge was Nicholas Murray Butler, A. B., M. A., Ph. D., LL. D. (from 17 universities), Litt. D., Jur. D., D. C. L., Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur, Grand Officer of the same, Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Redeemer (1st Class), Commander of Order of the Red Eagle, etc., etc., etc., President of Columbia University, Republican protagonist of Wets...
During a "run" on the Royal Bank of Canada, at Havana, occasioned by false and malicious rumors, President Gerardo Machadey Morales of Cuba fought his way through the crowd and into the bank with an immense wad of notes in one hand. Arrived at the deserted window marked "Receiving," the President counted out $100,000 with the greatest possible ostentation and deposited that sum. In a twinkling the "run" stopped...
British scientists look ahead. An eminent one ? the president of the Royal Anthropological Institute ? last week wrote to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka,* curator of physical anthropology in the National Museum (Washington, D. C.), to notify him that he had been honored with the Huxley Memorial Medal? for 1927 and would be expected in London a year from November to deliver the 1927 Huxley lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. No U.S. scientist save Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard (in 1908) had been so honored. It was recognition, gratifying indeed, of Dr. Hrdlicka's whole career, and in particular...
Carol, who is one of the best royal racing drivers in Europe, replied in perfect English...
...Plaza Del Almeria, the courtyard of the Royal Palace, a regiment of the Madras Hussars of Pavia was drawn up in honor of the Ambassador. Count Velle conducted him within. There Alphonso received him with the majesty of a sovereign, with the handclasp of a good fellow...