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...Lossiemouth, his birthplace. They agreed to have both speeches touch on all-important naval reduction, and issued a joint communiqué to the effect that their speeches, when delivered, should be regarded as the starting point of a new disarmament movement in which "other naval powers are expected to co-operate...
...President and confirmed by the Senate, plus the Secretary of Agriculture ex officio. It will have a working capital of $500,000,000 supplied from the U. S. Treasury. With this cash to lend, it will try to induce farmers to forego some of their normal independence, to join co-operative marketing associations. These associations, with money borrowed from the board, will attempt to moye food from farm to market more cheaply, with less spoilage and waste, than is now accomplished by scattered and individual private effort...
Completion of the link between the Guatemala and the Salvador railway will bring to a successful conclusion 25 years of effort by Minor Cooper Keith, organizer of potent United Fruit Co. In 1904 (five years after the formation of United Fruit) Mr. Keith acquired from the Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus...
Charles H. Ditson was president of Oliver Ditson Co. of Boston and of Charles H. Ditson & Co. of New York. His father, Oliver, was founder in 1835 of the music publishing house. With it the testator was associated from 1865 until last spring, when he died...
Ezra Cornell, grandson of University Founder Ezra Cornell (see p. 51) in San Rafael, Cal., last week, drove a golf ball, killed a cow, claimed a "birdie." Other reported golf incidents: in Warren, Ohio, Dr. E. D. Hoover holed in one on the third (195 yd.), his co-golfer George Jones followed him to the tee, holed in one, too; in Los Angeles, Francis Stevens Jr., defeated his father in the semi-finals of the State championship, thereby winning from father a seat in the Stock Exchange and permission to marry. Golfer Stevens Jr. did not, however, win the State...