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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pages of advertising per issue with which the magazine was launched had shrunk to four. Tactful requests that Editor Frankau modify his Lunatic-Fascist policies caused him to apply for an injunction restraining Inveresk Ltd. from interfering with his conduct of their paper. Since the editor had a contract, the only thing to do was buy him off. He held out last week for ?12,000-nearly $60,000-and finally got it. Wherefor the smug airs, the sherry...
...Bruce Caldwell, famed Yale footballer. was last year given a contract to play professional football for the New York Giants, after being declared ineligible at Yale. His pay was twice as large as that of any other member of the team. Last week his contract expired and, because he had not played well for the Giants, it was not renewed...
...famed scenically. And wealthy T. Coleman du Pont, whose health obliged him to resign last week as a Senator from Delaware, has long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky to get a Federal power licence, promising in return a 6,000-acre State park with highways and a bridge. Governor Flem D. Sampson, Congresswoman Langley and Congressman Robison of Kentucky, all Republicans...
...ever had. In Vienna young Ernestine, nearly grown up, tried first for opera but the director said "Mein Gott, what a face!" suggested a sewing machine. Only the roughneck father was glad. His Tini should have a decent career. But she fooled him, went to Dresden, brought back a contract signed by the King...
...example a $1,800,000 contract was let, last week, to the enterprising Automatic Electric Company of Chicago, which, within the next twelvemonth, will install a U. S. dial-telephone system in the Capital of the Nationalist State, the ancient Chinese city of Nanking, founded even before...