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...great, solemn procession of statesmen, relatives, soldiers marched behind the coffin to Chopin's dread funeral music and between two dense, black, sorrowing files of people who lined the entire route of the cortege...
...deep roll of muffled drums, the coffin bearing the body of President Friedrich Ebert of Germany (TIME, Mar. 9) was carried down the steps of the Presidential Palace in Wilhelmstrasse, placed in the waiting hearse, covered with the black, red and gold flag of republican Germany...
...Cheron, France, a gravedigger dug all morning, finished a hole for a coffin, threw up a spadeful of earth which struck a neighboring tombstone. As he bent again to his spade, this loosened stone fell, brought down a pile of earth over him, crushed him beneath it, smothered him to death...
...General Electric Co., where the first investigation strikes, was not in existence when the Sherman Anti-Trust Law was passed. Two years later, in 1892, Charles A. Coffin founded it by combining the Edison General Electric Co. and the Thompson-Houston Electric Co. Even after this combination, it was a comparatively small concern engaged in the manufacture of electrical apparatus. Now it has plants in 40 cities, em ploys over 74,000 men and its stock approaches...
...electrical industry had ever heard of Gifford, yet on Vail's word he was appointed. When the corps had done its work, he was chosen Director of the Advisory Committee of the Council of National Defense. Associated with him worked Daniel Willard, Bernard Baruch, Julius Rosenwald, Howard E. Coffin, Samuel Gompers, Charles M. Schwab, A. C. Bedford. Congress looked with suspicion at the Council of National Defense, jealous of its powers, exasperated by its efficiency. Mr. Gifford did not mind suspicion, but he did not permit interference. He did not hesitate to disagree with Secretary of War Baker over...