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...first substantial improvement in the art of weighing since the Romans developed the graduated steelyard. Before he died, the taciturn, ingenious Vermonter was honored as one of the great inventors of the 19th Century. He was knighted by the Emperor of Austria, awarded high Saracenic orders by the Bey of Tunis. In the U. S., Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight of a wandering chicken. In 1876 Josh Billings described a school mistress as "precise in everything...
...Washington society it was an occasion, to His Excellency Mehmet Munir Bey, Ambassador of the Turkish Republic,, it was an opportunity. Last week, the pictures and knick knacks of Mrs. John Brooks Henderson's bulbous brownstone castle on 16th Street went on the auction block...
Recently the Turkish consul at Odessa, sleek Raouf Bey, returned to Istanbul with 14 enormous trunks. This, the Turkish customs decided, was going several trunks too far. They obtained Dictator Kemal's permission to violate Consul Raouf's diplomatic immunity. When he was found to have brought in 27 fur coats, four cases of the best caviar and other salable Soviet goods, Consul Raouf was fined $2,100, sent to jail last week for one year as a smuggler...
...formal diplomatic rituals the President took in his stride: he received Ambassador Mehmet Munir Bey of Turkey and credentials; he gave a formal luncheon for Dr. Don Alfonso Lopez, president-elect of Colombia...
When His Majesty relaxed in mellow mood, with Dictator Kemal half seas over, opportunities to negotiate were nimbly seized by the Talleyrand of Turkey, her perpetual Foreign Minister, Dr. Tewfik Rushdi Bey, who began his career as an obstetrician. Knowing that there is no Persian with whom one can effectively negotiate except the King of Kings, ingratiating Dr. Rushdi sounded His Majesty on the great project of a Middle Eastern Alliance, a bloc to be constructed in spite of Britain and France by Moslems of Turkey, Persia, Irak, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordania and Egypt. Such at least is Dr. Rushdi...