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White Court, Summer White House, lies on a six and a half acre "estate," with 400 feet of frontage on the bay. It is a great colonial pile, about 20 years old, built by the late Frederick E. Smith of Dayton, and now owned by his children. It numbers 28 rooms, including eleven master bedrooms, a huge reception room, a dining room, sun-parlor, music room and six servants' bedrooms. Across the entire rear of the house, facing the bay, are porches. A lawn slopes down to the water. The view includes Egg Rock, recently converted by the Massachusetts legislature...
According to the provisions of the parliamentary act under which the road was built, it may not be broken up by electric, gas or water companies, or the post office authorities for underground telegraph and telephone cables...
...Firestone has not, however, remained idle. He has organized a mid-western group of important interests and has practically concluded negotiations for a large concession in Liberia, Africa, to locate new rubber plantations. Along with the concession, railways and roads would be built and the finances of the Liberian Government would be assisted for internal improvements. Liberia will, in fact, soon send a Loan Commission to Manhattan. Under the Liberian law, no white foreigner can own land-the result of a policy of "Africa for the Africans"-and the Firestone concession is said, therefore, to be based on a long...
...such statements as "The men who shout for more business in government do not realize the limitations of a democratic government. . . . Business in government would ignore the social duties of the government," discussed the memorial to Warren G. Harding, onetime Kiwanian, which has been designed by a Kiwanian architect, built by a Kiwanian construction company, erected with Kiwanian money in Vancouver, B. C. With due respect for the law, the Kiwanis decided to hold their next convention in Montreal-a choice which elicited a demonstration from the famed Montreal Kiltie bagpipers...
Many who were present at that performance came from farther than 21 miles away. The Ravinia opera pavilion, built in 1905 of pine lumber, has remarkably fine acoustics. Said Otto Kahn, famed banker and music patron: "It is like a fine old Stradivarius violin...