Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazed to see a 'squad' of about a dozen baboons busily imitating the military exercises they had witnessed. Carrying branches of trees sloped over their shoulders like rifles, they were drawn up in line, while a baboon that was larger than the others impersonated the 'non-com,' gibbering orders...
That statement might have ended the matter, save for ulterior gossip because of which a special Governmental com-mission last week kept Dr. Weibel on tenterhooks. The rumor: Dr. Weibel is a Nazi, and therefore a menace to the Austrian Republic. The man who was supposed to be spreading such a tale: Dr. Weibel's assistant and camera-operator, Dr. Preissecker...
...June 24). His choice: Lester A. Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife and two débutante daughters, 20 & 21. Said the Baltimore Afro-American of Minister-designate Walton: "His indorsements for the position come from a cross-section of American life . . . Senator Robert...
...Exec. Com. Chairman...
...Warren E. Collins Company, which in return paid Drinker a royalty of between $200 and $300 for each machine. Emerson found it possible to build machines using some-what the same principle and allegedly more efficient at a price of several hundred dollars less than the Collins Com- pany. Suit was brought against Emerson for infringement...