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Compared to men of other nations your Frenchman is a born gastronome. Even to French Socialists the stomach and its garniture are matters to be approached with reverence...
Greeks and Jugoslavs have struggled mightily since the War for political control of Albania, a republic bounded by Greece, Jugoslavia and the Adriatic. Last week the influence of Jugoslavia became definitely predominant at Tirana (the capital) when Ahmed Bey Zogu, the Jugoslav-born President of Albania, called to the Premiership Cena Bey, also a Jugoslav by birth. The Greek faction, headed by onetime (June-Dec. 1923) Premier Bishop Fan Stylian Noli (now exiled in Italy), were reported last week to be seeking aid from Premier Mussolini wherewith to regain control of Albania and oust therefrom the Jugoslavs...
Adolph Lewisohn, German-born Manhattan capitalist: "I provided my home last week for a meeting of the Westchester County Committee of the New York State Charities Aid Association and heard Sociologist Edmund Cogswell scold bankers and insurance men for saying that the great majority of aged people are dependent on relatives or charity. An extensive investigation which he made in Massachusetts showed that less than 40% were dependent. It showed, too, that every 100 self-reliant sexagenarians have 260 children, while every 100 almshouse inmates have only 62. The association elected me president...
...gentleman was Dr. Rudolph Matas, born at Bonnet Carre, near New Orleans. His parents, Spaniards, sent him to Barcelona, Spain, then to Paris, for his early training. Later he studied in Texas, Louisiana, Mexico. His has been a polyglot and cosmopolitan education. In 1880 he began his practice of surgery at New Orleans...
Before the Daily Mirror was born, before Philip Payne became its managing editor, there was the double murder beneath the crab-apple tree. The first investigation ended without indictments; the case was hushed...