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...Baltimore Sun, able cartoonist Edward Duffy composed a sooty drawing of a burlesque policeman twirling an enormous stick over the head of a small figure with a derby hat, enormous ears, tight little coat, baggy pants and suitcase shoes at a familiar angle. This figure, whose little bamboo cane was labelled "Will Hays," was tossing aside a bag of boodle and grinning up at the officer with wrynecked, Chaplinesque embarrassment. The cartoon's title was "The Gold Rush...
...young rats Dr. Evans, head of the University of California's department of anatomy, fed all five vitamins with nourishing, highly purified casein and recrystallized cane sugar. The rats remained half grown and sexually immature. Previous experiments had shown that rats given food that contained the five vitamins thrived normally. Clearly, Dr. Evans' diet lacked some element present but not recognized in the foods of foregoing vitamin experiments...
...Cuba Cane Sugar Corp. (which figured the price of cane sugar in 1927 to be $0.02493 a Ib.)-$5,275,599-Previous year...
...plan is one to enthrall imagination. For some time acquaintances meeting in foreign capitals have remarked that the world is after all, a small place. To contain the tourist whom travel has broadened until he is loquaciously expensive, who gives critical lectures, or pokes things derogatorily with a cane, the world is indeed too small. For him is such a trip designed. But before he and all his ilk can be bundled with the necessary changes of linen into a gargantuan rocket, the contention that so many foreign bodies in space might disrupt the delicately balanced celestial system, must...
...Merci! Mes amis!" They sped with him to the U. S. Embassy, where he was welcomed in behalf of the American Club of Paris by its President, smart expatriate Percy Piexotto. Followed a two-minute reply by Mr. Herrick, who seemed not fully convalescent and leaned heavily on his cane. Said he ". . . One thing is certain! No matter what are the prevailing differences between France and the United States, ... a way to satisfy both countries will inevitably be found. . . ." Unable to attend the official luncheon of welcome, former Ambassador to the U. S. Jules Jusserand sent a message: "Should...