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...following: magnetos, which paid seven francs a kilogram, are now assessed 80 francs a kilogram ? increase 1,100%; fountain pens, admitted on a tariff of five francs a pen, must pay 80% on their value; electrical equipment for automobiles must meet a levy increased by 800%; magneto breaker points and distributors, 1,300% increase; spark plugs, 800% increase. It is to be noted that all these articles are manufactured by Germany...
Arnoldo Lindi (see above) was once a breaker boy in a Swedish iron mine; he ran away, shipped before the mast, landed in Boston. There he moved furniture, went in for pugilism, sang in his spare lime with a Swedish choral society. True to tradition a rich man heard him, sent him abroad for a musical education, where he has since had successful engagements. Last week he had his Chicago debut...
Immediately following the first-year event. William Germain Dooley of Boston, the recent record-breaker, was elected captain of the 1930 harriers. Dooley prepared at Huntington School where he ran the mile and the half mile and captained two winning relay teams at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic meets...
...mark of 51 seconds flat bettering the old record by a fifth of a second also. Dorchester broke the half mile relay record largely due to the work of Yavner and Korb who finished first and second in the 220 yard dash, Tremblay of Lawrence was the fourth record breaker, when he heaved the 12 pound shot 43 feet 2 1-3 inches...
...hours together they thus chanted their leader's name like an incantation: "Lord Mohammed, Son of the Slave to the Generous One, Sultan of Islam, Breaker of Spanish heads!" All this they shouted and much more during a week's rejoicing decreed to celebrate the marriage of Abd-el-Krim to the 23-year-old daughter of the Moroccan chieftan whom he deposed (TiME, Feb. 16, 1925, SPAIN), Mulay Ahmed ben Absalem ber Raisul, called by the press "Raisuli," self-styled "Prince of the West...