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...Delhi a hartal (passive strike) was called after the arrest of 71 Nationalists who were picketing a liquor shop, carrying out the Mahatma's campaign against foreign cloth and spirits...
Jean Patou-High waistlines, skirts five inches below the knee for sports, just clearing the floor at night. The "Egyptian silhouet," evening gowns with a draped front, skirt slit to the calf. Peaked cloth caps for winter sports with fur ear-laps á la Kennebunk Port. Featured colors: dark yellow, green, astrakhan beige...
Major General Arturo de Echona and a ring of other potentates and sportsmen in Colombia's commercial centre, Barranquilla, stood keenly intent last week around a table covered with a red cloth. At the table Manhattan's marble champion Vinnie Sullivan, 13, who is making a South American tour, gave an exhibition of championship aggie-cracking...
...England textiles have been notoriously ailing, unable to compete with cheap labor in Southern mills. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest maker of cotton cloth in the world, is the century-old giant of the industry. In 1928 it lost more than $1.500,000. In 1929 it earned well over $1,500,000. Those who know Amoskeag agree that credit goes to one man: Frederick Christopher Dumaine, who at 64 is treasurer of Amoskeag.* "Some of the owners of this property are getting alarmed and urging us to discontinue before all the money is lost. That's an easy suggestion. . . ." Thus...
Covered by a wet cloth at night, patted, scraped and moulded by day, a huge mass of modeler's clay on a draughting table in the offices of Todd, Robertson & Todd, Manhattan engineers, was slowly taking form last week as the preliminary sketch model of a gigantic group of buildings. Reporters realizing that this mass of clay will soon evolve into a $250,000,000 development, probably the largest, most important single architectural project ever undertaken in New York, clamored for latest details...