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...City, bustling citadel of London finance, "Leith-Ross of the Treasury" is an awe-inspiring name, but few Britons outside the pale of highest Empire finance have ever heard of him. Last New Year's Day small notice was taken when the King-Emperor made Sir Frederick Leith-Ross a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. Soon afterwards the City heard that tall, cool, piercing-eyed Sir Frederick, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, would be sent to the White House this autumn to negotiate a final settlement of the Empire...
Postmaster General Farley, principal patronage dispenser for the Administration, last week completed his peaceful penetration of the most non-political citadel in Washington when his man Emil Hurja (pronounced Hur-ya.) took over a desk in the Public Works Administration. It was all done so smoothly and tactfully that Public Works Administrator Ickes, who is also Secretary of the Interior, thought that he had taken Mr. Hurja in on his own motion. Smart Jim Farley sat back and let him continue to think...
Part of most tourists' fun in quaint old Nuremberg is shuddering at the medieval torture instruments in its thick-walled Burg (citadel). Last week Nuremberg Storm Troopers revived a medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They...
Worker") on a hand press which was frequently moved from hideaway to hideaway, Editor & Publisher Pilsudski was arrested and placed in the dread "Pavilion X" of the Warsaw Citadel. Item: 1901, unable to escape from "Pavilion X," Prisoner Pilsudski brilliantly feigned madness and was transferred to St. Nicholas Hospital...
...Citadel (Charleston, S.C.) F.B. Grier, general counsel to the Atlantic Coast Line ....LL.D. Lewis Wardlaw Haskell, U.S. Consul-general in Zurich ...... LL.D. Engineer Walter M. Smith, designer of Chicago's Drainage District .... Sc.D...