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...Lately it has been calling itself "aviation capital of the U. S." having forty-seven aeronautical enterprises in or near it. In the past fortnight Wichita has become indebted for further prominence to Max and Louis Levand, co-publishers (with their brother John as circulation manager) of the Wichita Beacon, formerly owned by Senator Henry Justin Allen...
...Kansas as the largest U. S. wheat producing State, declared: "The biggest hog will always lie in the trough. Kansas is now in its trough." By the time he had reached Amarillo, Tex., Kansas was up in arms at his epithet. Max and Louis Levand, publishers of the Wichita Beacon, wired President Hoover that his Farm Board Chairman had "insulted 1.850.000 people," demanded Mr. Legge's resignation. To Chairman Legge they telegraphed...
Social workers know Dr. Cabot's great love for music. He is a good violinist, likes to attend symphony concerts. Twenty-five years ago he started Boston's custom of singing Christmas carols on Beacon Hill. Every Christmas since then he has led the singing band himself, except for 1917 when he was serving in France. Then he amused the people of Bordeaux with his Christmas carolling procession...
Mergers. Last week eleven banks telescoped themselves into five. Most important mergers were: Central National and Penn National, of Philadelphia, into an institution with $50,000,000 deposits; Beacon Trust and Atlantic National, of Boston, into a bank with $140,000,000 deposits; Pacific Trust and Manufacturers Trust, of New York, into a bank with total deposits...
Last week the Department of Commerce announced a visual beacon will be erected at Bellefonte, Pa., in the middle of dread "Hell's Stretch" (graveyard of many a mail ship), for tests by NAT pilots on the New York-Cleveland...