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...pandemonium burst from loyal throats in cheer on cheer while the Royal Field Marshal was got in the shade of a pavilion and 9,000 warriors-a full-strength British war division-began marching, trotting, speeding and clanking past. Over one-half of this modern Army display was not afoot or ahorse. So-called "motor cavalry" dashed past in light cars. Heavy tanks saluted the King Emperor by turning their gun turrets with massive precision to the angle U. S. soldiers call "eyes right." After God Save the King had been played so softly that it sounded like a prayer...
Three weeks ago an idea dawned in the minds of the world's silver speculators. Last week it burst full upon them with the brightness of a newly risen sun. The New Deal-besides its large home schemes -has an even bigger scheme afoot: to make silver once more a world money metal. Beholding this sun, the silver world went wild and the New Deal had an international problem...
...than 200 shop windows. And when the looting started, police dropped their nightsticks, took out their guns. Five robbers were shot, one fatally. In a wholly irrelevant brawl, a white man was so badly beaten by Negroes that he died within 72 hours. With their streets swarming with police afoot, in squad cars and on horseback, the Harlem Merchants Association wildly telegraphed Governor Lehman at Albany for National Guardsmen...
...While floor brokers amused themselves with a new game (see p. 68) and influential members anxiously discussed the coming elections for president, there was serious business afoot on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Summoned to attend a secret meeting of the public relations committee was Edward L. Bernays, No. 1 U. S. publicist. He had obviously been called in to discuss the vexed question of "reselling" the Stock Exchange to the public. Perhaps, newshawks reasoned, he had been hired to take over that job. When later that day the committee refused to say what had happened...
Pressed Steel Manufacturer John Woodman Higgins of Worcester, Mass, has one thing in common with Shakespeare's Claudio: each would walk ten miles afoot to see good armor. For John Woodman Higgins, who manufactured tin hats for the A. E. F. during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy...