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...large sugar-beet estate near Magdeburg, Dr. Browne saw one of Germany's most famed dowsers at work. Covering his chest with a padded leather jacket, the dowser took in his hands a looped steel divining rod, began to pace the ground. Suddenly the loop shot upward, hit him a hard blow on the chest. Continuing, he charted the outlines of the underground stream. Then using an aluminum rod, which he said was much more sensitive, he estimated the depth of the stream. A rod of still another metal indicated by a chest blow that the water was good...
...sugar producers of all the world. Long and laborious have been his efforts (TIME, Aug. 18 et seq.). At a conference in Amsterdam he accomplished the difficult task of convincing the men who control the huge East Indian sugar crop. In Brussels he drew an agreement from the beet sugar growers of Europe although all were frightened by the bogey of "Russian dumping," a bogey which made cooperation seem futile. Then he saw his plan verge on failure when the German delegation marched stubbornly back to Berlin. In Paris last month he was told that the Germans were ready...
...commissions to deal with expert subjects and placing upon them men who are in no wise qualified as experts? Congress is rapidly delegating its power. We are surrendering the duties imposed upon us by the Constitution. ..." But when the vote came on Commissioner Edgar Brossard, accused of representing the beet sugar interests, Senator Borah was found paired for him, presumably because Idaho produces sugar beets. Senator Borah has said: "I am proudest of my 'Nay' votes...
Married. Representative Charles Bateman Timberlake, 76, of the 2nd Colorado Congressional District, rich beet-sugar advocate; and Mrs. Roberta Wood Elliott, 32, onetime headwaitress at the George Washington Inn; in Washington. Divorced. Capt. Jefferson Davis Cohn, British sportsman, godson of the late President Jefferson Davis of the U. S. Confederacy; and Marcelle Jenny Favrel Cohn (Marcelle Chantal), French cinema and stage actress, his second wife (first wife: Florence Bottomley, daughter of Britain's late Publicist Horatio Bottomley). Mutual charges: that she played in the cinema against his will; that he liked other women, stood...
...formulating his statement, a learned U. S. attorney, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne was in Brussels attempting to persuade the world's sugar-growers to adjust production to consumption (TIME, Dec. 15). Although he had previously succeeded in uniting Java growers with the Cubans, he failed to draw the European beet-sugar producers into the agreement. Just as the conference was drawing to a close, the powerful German delegation left Brussels, announced they could not conform to the schedule given them. Private negotiations will continue, for other nations have agreed to the restriction, contingent upon Germany's eventual consent...