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When the directors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., Ltd., obtained as their compendium's editor-in-chief able James Louis Garvin, longtime editor of the London Observer and in the late Lord Northcliffe's opinion "the greatest living journalist" (TIME, April 26, 1926), the publishing world knew that something striking might happen to the Patriarch of the Library. Editor Garvin's selection was encouraged by U. S. representatives and the American Advisory Board, with Franklin Henry Hooper of New York as American Editor, was given new freedom...
More interesting was the statement in economist Rudolf Martin's financial compendium, just published in Berlin, that Wilhelm of Doorn is still the richest of all Germans, credited with $152,000,000 in capital holdings. This does not mean that he has much money to spend. Wilhelm Hohenzollern's wealth consists of: A million and a half acres of land (entailed) worth $120,000,000 Castles, palaces, gardens, worth 20,000,000 Furniture, jewels, works of art, worth 4,000,000 Cash settlement from the German government for confiscated property...
Famed is England's DORA (Defence of the Realm Act), compendium of War-time restrictions, still unrepealed. Frequently flayed was Dora, and it must certainly be admitted that she has produced many children who are quite literally robots. For when, last week, Consolidated Automatic Merchandising Corp.-better known as Cameo-arranged for wide distribution of Cameo automatic talking vending machines throughout the United Kingdom, it was really from Dora that these subhuman salesmen sprung. For Dora's decree made many a public house, cafe and tobacconist close during certain afternoon hours and also close early at night. Ingenious...
...chase to the catastrophic finish, Moby Dick provides palpitating cinema material, to say nothing of a complete scientific compendium of whaledom. But far more than these it offers so excellent a parable on the mystery of evil that every man can read into it the drama of his own experience. "Mr. D. H. Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck...
...remarkable compendium of little-known facts and strange information, gathering up all stray notes about Witch history in England from Anglo-Saxon Times to the height of the delusion in the Seventeenth Century...