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Meanwhile, the Commission's Chief Accountant William V. King was busy at the Piney, Pa. plant of Clarion River Power Co., which the company claimed cost $11,032,816. He recommended that $6,387,731 of this amount be struck out, including such promotion items as $144 for neckties, $4,000 for cigars and dinners. The Clarion company was furious. Seizing upon the Attorney General's New River decision as precedent, it applied for an injunction to prevent the Federal audit at Piney from going into the records as true...
...workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
...many a year a bust of kinetic little Dictator President Augusto Bernardino Leguia has stood in Lima's Governmental Palace bearing the clarion inscription NO FIRMO! ("I Will Not Sign!") This is a reference to the oft-told tale of how, on an occasion since commemorated as Character Day, he refused to sign his own abdication when threatened with death (TIME, Sept 1). The memorial still stood last week, when a hasty paintbrush edited the inscription to YA HA FIRMADO! ("Now he has signed...
...this threat Impresario White made clarion answer. He declared that this year's Maverick would be "the most stupendous spectacle ever seen in America." According to tradition it will be held at full moon in a long mountain meadow. It is strictly in costume, the more outlandish and inane the better. Lunches are packed, fires are kindled, and as the afternoon's spectacle progresses, sitters (thousands come, anyone who has the price of admission) munch and watch. The colonists sell their batiks, paintings, arty gadgets. Newsboys hawk a special edition of the bulletin. Late in the afternoon a costume promenade...
Died. Thomas B. Slick, 47, famed oil wildcatter, "richest independent operator in the world"; of a cerebral hemorrhage, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore where he had been since June 27. Born in Clarion, Pa., he went in 1906 to the Indian Territory, after serving apprentice- ship as driller, muleskinner, roustabout in the oilfields of Illinois. In 1913 he sold out his holdings in Illinois for $2,500,000; last year his Southwestern holdings brought him $45,000,000 from Prairie Oil & Gas. During his funeral in faraway Clarion, all drilling and pumping operations in the Oklahoma City oilfield were stilled...