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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interstate Commerce Commission last week chose a new chairman for 1930 and simultaneously gave him more work to do than he or anyone else could possibly accomplish in a year's time. By a process of rotation Frank McManamy, whose I. C. C. service began 23 years ago as a clerk, was advanced to the head of the Commission to succeed Ernest Irving Lewis. Chairman McManamy will need all his knowledge-and experience as a practical railroad man to cope with the task assigned him, because last week the Commission adopted and published its long-delayed plan for consolidating...
Grigorie J. Sokolnikov, newly appointed Soviet Ambassador to Britain, arrived in London fortnight ago, bought a new dress suit in which to present his credentials to King George, and waited. Eight days passed. Conservatives, chuckling at a chance to embarrass the Labor Government, stood up in Parliament and loudly asked why the new Soviet Ambassador had not been received. Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson scowled...
Some weeks ago Sir Edward browsed through a volume of poems by medieval George Gascoigne (1535-77) entitled A hnndreth Sundrie Floures bound up in one small Posie. Gathered Partely (by translation) in the fyne outlandish gardens of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarke, Ariosto and others; and partely by invention out of our own fruitful orchardes in Englande. Yielding Sundrie Savours of tragical, comical and moral discourse, bothe pleas-aunt and profitable, to the well smelling noses of learned Readers. The well-smelling nose of Sir Edward unearthed a hymn which seemed to him highly appropriate. Its last verse...
...Rumania one may refer to Prince Nicholas, weak-chinned younger son of Dowager Queen Marie, as a? "bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend," but it will cost one just four months in jail. Some weeks ago Speed-Fiend Nicholas crashed into a taxicab and in pettish rage" kicked the chauffeur severely under the stomach so that the unfortunate man had to be rushed to the city hospital. One Mircea Damian wrote to the local newspapers in protest, not only calling Prince Nicholas bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend, but adding...
...General at a banquet in Texas ten years ago," said Printer Crawford, "and for the next three or four years I spent a few days every year with him at Juarez where he was a corps commander. He fled from Mexico when Federalist troops were trying to put him in front of a firing squad. Right now he is the most peaceful-minded man in the United States. He has put away his sword and his pistol and is looking for business opportunities-possibly in Chicago. He left my house this morning and I can't say where...