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Leathery, pot-bellied Tom Garry was the Kelly-Nash henchman who had charge of Stadium decorations. By prearrangement, he also had an electrical pipe line to the loudspeaker circuit, which was supposed to be controlled exclusively from the convention rostrum. In the hour of his triumph last week he was...
Special provisions for cases of exceptional hardship merely added to the confusion. Most of the litigation centred around the complex problem of evaluating "invested capital." Carter Glass, McAdoo's successor, summarized the tax when he recommended its repeal in 1919: "It encourages wasteful expenditure, puts a premium on overcapitalization...
Badoglio. Of these Army heads, far the ablest and most experienced is Pietro Giuseppe Vittorio Luigi Badoglio, 68, Senator, Marquis of Sabotino, Duke of Addis Ababa. He has fought in all Italian wars since Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia whipped the Italians in Eritrea in 1896 and he, a lieutenant of...
Published last week were three books which, utterly divergent in most respects, all operated in a common, powerful, magnetic field. Each centred in a Messiah.
Within its thick walls is a plaza some 600 yd. in diameter. Ceilings of its turrets are reinforced concrete ten feet thick, low to the ground like the Maginot Line. Speculation as to what manner of weapon could paralyze the defenders of such a place centred on two possibilities: 1...