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...declined and retired from the diplomatic service because of ill health. His achievements while in Argentina included helping double the volume of U. S. trade with that country and the sale of two U. S.-built battleships to the Argentine Navy. In Paris Mr. & Mrs. Sherrill, who are childless, maintain a home. Both speak French fluently, the language of diplomacy at Angora.* He is a member of the Olympic Games committee, once (1887) was U. S. 100-yd. dash champion, originated the series of international interuniversity track meets in 1894, five years after he left New Haven. Mr. Sherrill...
...retained all of the stock Mr. Crane gave away in 1925, 1927, 1930; employes who disposed of all their stock (quoted now at $17) get nothing. Residue of the estate forms a trust fund for Mrs. Florence Crane, the widow, and Cornelius and Florence Crane, children. If they die childless, one-half of the residue goes to Crane employes, one-half to eight Chicago hospitals and charities. Birthdays, Hon. Katherine Plunket of Ballymascanlan, "Grand Old Lady of Ireland" (in); Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes (64); Representative John Nance Garner (62); the Pennsylvania Limited (50); Archduke Otto of Habsburg (19)-Died, John...
...disbelieved in Shaw's, finally succeeded in worming out of Shaw that he had been celibate till 29, had then paid several women "man's highest compliment'' before he married, in middle age, neither for love nor money-as Shaw himself puts it: "a childless partnership." Harris regretfully admits Shaw was "no ascetic," but adds: "he is absolutely free from the slightest trace of sensuality and is never offensive. In fact that is what I feel is the whole trouble with...
...Andy Blair and his childless wife Philly were as poor as their neighbors, maybe poorer. So when Andy, chopping at a stump of firewood, struck an iron pot, he was sure it was a pot of gold. For once Andy w was right: the pot held over $1,900 in coin, and two pearls. At first the old couple wanted to run and tell everybody, then they thought better of it. They hid the treasure in the house, invited the neighbors to a surprise party. By the time the night of the party came they had worried so much about...
...Conservative Baldwin cut away in 1923. The tax climbed back to five shillings in the pound. The surtax rate on all incomes over $9,720 has been raised 10% in all brackets. Exemptions have been cut to incomes of only $486 a year for single persons and $729 for childless married...