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...summers ago two octogenarian Scots made a deal for the barren island of St. Kilda, among The Hebrides. Seller was Sir Reginald Macleod, 84, 24th chief of the clan, director of Shell Transport & Trading Co. Buyer was Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa. Last summer the Marquess removed St. Kilda's 35 tenants, their cattle and a few sheep to Ayrshire where he owns 76,000 acres. Left behind were wild sheep, seamews and puffins. Declared the Marquess' heir, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis: "My father and I will never again permit the island to be settled' (TIME...
...merchant with a good idea to work on. Success brought him the ailment common to many another U. S. tycoon-a Napoleonic complex. In 1913 this found expression. That year he built for himself a great monument, the Woolworth building, internationally hailed as a "Cathedral of Commerce." On the 24th floor he placed the company's offices. His private office represented a $35,000 departure from frugality. It was a careful duplicate of Napoleon's library, even to the three throne chairs. Looking down from the wall was a large portrait of the stern-mouthed Emperor. When...
Born. To Telesphore Simard, onetime Mayor of Quebec; his 24th child, a girl; by the second Mme Simard; in Quebec...
...last week that a better balance between producer and consumer was the world's most pressing problem in 1930 (see below), the man whom he was coming to visit, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, said the same thing in a speech to the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, meeting in Manhattan. Cause of Unemployment, he recited, is overproduction, inevitable result of the War. Although Science, the builder of machinery, has often been held responsible for taking men's jobs from them, Dr. Millikan refused to let Science take...
...control at least a dozen House and Senate elections will be formally contested after Congress meets, in addition to earlier recounts in the field. In an Indiana Congressional District (8th), for example, a Republican claimed victory by ten votes out of 88,400 while in an Illinois district (24th) a Democrat insisted he had won by 13 votes out of 54.600. The senatorial election in Minne sota hinged on some 8,000 votes out of 565,000. But no such late switches would be large enough to give either party the working majority of 25 or more House seats required...