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...Clip-clap, clip-clap through the tidy Hague, good motherly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands clattered off last week in her State Coach to open Parliament. With her rode buxom, schoolgirlish Crown Princess Juliana and the Queen's fat but studiously self-effacing Prince Consort-Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A smart troop of cavalry gave dash to the corpulent Royal turnout. Loyal crowds bellowed vociferously not "God Save the Queen!" but that grand old Dutch cheer, "Hold the Sea! HOLD...
...traveler from Washington to Cape Town, Union of South Africa, must journey 11,136 miles if he goes by London; 8,034 miles if he goes direct. To clip 3,102 miles off the diplomatic distance between Washington and Cape Town, to bring the U. S. A. and the U. S. A. into closer relation, steps were taken last week for an exchange of ministers such as the U. S. now conducts with Canada and Irish Free State. The U. S. approved the appointment of Eric H. Louw as South Africa's first envoy to Washington...
...read in TIME some time (and several TIMES) ago, that Allan Hoover would not graduate this year because he was away from his studies on his father's South American good-will tour? Yet notice the picture and legend which I clip from the Boston Herald of June 30. Explain please...
...Yale stroke, set at a much higher beat, makes little use of the long lay-back favored by the Harvard oarsmen, with the result that the Blue tipped oars, while at a higher clip, do not pull the length of water handled by the Crimson sweeps...
...production. California has a State Oil Umpire (F. C. Van Diesne) to curtail production. Potential production is estimated by a general engineering committee of the oil operators and from these estimates Umpire Van Diesne prepares his orders for allowable production. His most recent order is calculated to clip some 200,000 barrels per day from California's oil flow, bring production down to around 600,000 barrels per day or less. The California method of production limitation may well prove a starting point for the discussion at Colorado Springs...