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...Roanoke's celebrated Virginia Dare but Martin de Argiielles of St. Augustine (founded in 1565) was the first white child born in a permanent European settlement in the present U.S. So said Katherine S. Lawson last week, after study of Library of Congress archives. When Virginia was born in 1587, Martin was already some 20 years old and had joined the Armada to fight Sir Francis Drake, plunderer of his birthplace. Where and when he died, Mrs. Lawson did not discover...
Social service work is by far the most popular Brooks House activity. Mustered by a committee of about fifteen students, volunteers work with underprivileged boys in Greater Boston settlement houses. Scout troops, boys clubs, athletic teams, and discussion groups are the usual thing, though individual hobby groups deal with almost everything...
Boys from Brooks House from the rank and file of the staffs of Boston's settlement houses. Boys from Brooks House spend their spare time passing on their knowledge to other boys who have never been given a chance to get to college. Boys from Brooks House represent Harvard before the city on lecture platforms, as scout leaders, are financed by your Council Pledge...
Mysterious Accord. Day after President Avila Camacho dropped his gentle hint, the New York Times reported from Washington that an oil settlement is indeed in the making. It will be part of a general agreement with Mexico for economic and military defense of the Western Hemisphere...
...Import's $30,000,000 will be used for building roads, developing Mexican agriculture, etc. Treasury's $30,000,000 will be used to stabilize the peso. From this fund will come a $9,000,000 "token payment" to U.S. oil companies while negotiations for a final settlement are in progress...