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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Piquant also are the recently announced terms under which 3,000 rifles have been sold by the U. S. War Department for $6 each to the Conservative Nicaraguan Government of President Adolfo Diaz (recognized by the U.S.). The contract is so drawn that even if the Liberal Nicaraguan Government of President Juan Sacasa (recognized by Mexico) should be returned at the next Nicaraguan election it will have to finance payment for these arms (now being used to fight it by the Conservatives...
Also in Vienna, where alert judges have accepted the evidence of blood chemistry in determining paternity, the court last week accepted the psychoanalysis of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Singer Richard Gauber, contracted to the Vienna Opera Company, refused to return from leave of absence in Berlin because, as he explained, "he could not stand traveling and because he was able to act and sing much better before a German than an Austrian audience, as the latter affected him mentally." In evidence he offered Dr. Freud's analysis of his mental eddies. The judge gravely studied the report and decided that...
Chicago Civic Opera Company announced a new contract with its musicians, union men all. Last year the average salary, from harp to kettledrum, was $132 per week. The new average: $150 per week; next year, $162 per week...
...contract for the new 60 inch reflecting telescope which is to be installed at Bloemfontein and which, as previously announced, will be the largest one in the Southern Hemisphere, has been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh...
...Impostors who can imitate Mutt and Jeff, or Father, on restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed by three foster-fathers since. The Republican elephant, Democratic donkey and Tammany tiger were originated-how lately and by whom? Answer: Th. Nast, 60 years...