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While I was reading the latest edition of TIME the following question occurred to me as I glanced at the page or two which you devoted to W. R. Hearst [TIME, Aug...
...would like to thank Custis Knapp for agreeing in his letter to TIME (Aug. 8) that an article about Boy Scouts should not be put under your ARMY & NAVY heading...
Edward of Wales and his youngest brother, Prince George, ended their official tour of Canada (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and settled down last week at Edward's "E.P." ranch in Pekisko, Alberta, Canada...
Successor. Wall Street doubted that a Dupont-either T. Coleman Dupont or Pierre Samuel Dupont -whose company has bought much U. S. Steel stock (TIME, Aug. 8) would succeed Judge Gary as U. S. Steel Chairman. Whom had Judge Gary recommended? No one publicly and explicitly, though theory mongers found it exciting to point out an article only last month in Collier's Weekly wherein Judge Gary saluted Calvin Coolidge and said he would have been an outstanding success in any business...
What, people wondered, would the great Postal Telegraph-Commercial Cable system, with its present monopoly of transpacific wire communication, do about the bigger & better Pacific cable, announced in project last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 15) by the Western Union Co.? The Commercial cable from San Francisco, via Honolulu to Shanghai can handle only 100 letters per minute. The proposed Western Union cable will carry 2,500 letters per minute. But it did not seem likely that Commercial would install improved equipment over the 9,100-mile route to meet its competitor. To do so would cost Commercial perhaps 16 millions...