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...which boasts that it will not be undersold, was doing a landoffice liquor business. All old straight American whiskeys cost $6.94 a quart, or $3.74 a pint. Other prices: blended Golden Wedding ($2.94 a quart), *** Hennessy ($4.49 a fifth), Holloway's gin ($1.74), Mumm's Cordon Rouge 1926 champagne ($5.74 a quart...
...Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, wearing a business suit out of deference to the Commissar's proletarianism, emerged through a cordon of vigilant police with a warm greeting. Also present was Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador, who two days later made up for the parties Comrade Litvinoff had missed when he deferred his trip to Angora (TIME, Nov. 6) by a sumptuous banquet in his honor. Footmen in red livery and gold buttons served caviar and champagne, there were crimson roses on the dinner table to honor the Soviet visitors, the turkey was called "Dindoneau a la Moskva...
Last week Feisal's body reached Haifa, Palestine. A throng of 15,000 pious Moslems broke through a police cordon, threatened to topple over the official dais, trampled several people in an effort to touch the bier of a 37th-generation descendant of Mohammed. British planes took the body to Bagdad, where a native newspaper was suppressed for ten days for suggesting that Feisal committed suicide. A hundred thousand Arabs attended the royal obsequies. The crowd was so dense and so excited that police barred the palace gates against them, severed a bridge of boats across the Tigris lest...
...York, in Germany.) To his wife, Lily, who had given him seven children (two sons, five daughters) he gave a gold crown set with diamonds & pearls, worth $200,000. Two years later on one of his frequent visits to Germany the Grand Duke of Hesse gave him the cordon of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous in recognition of his hearty German goodness. Ten days later he died of dropsy at "Villa Lily" in Langenschwal-bach on the hills above Wiesbaden...
...Maru, inside Kobe harbor than police arrested three members of a terrorist club attempting to board the ship. Dr. Ozaki smiled at his two pretty daughters, then stepped down the gangplank to a waiting automobile. Other amateur assassins were on the dock. Two of them broke through a police cordon brandishing heavy cudgels, shouting "Wait, Ozaki, wait!" They too were arrested. Unruffled, Dr. Ozaki agreed to return to the ship, proceed from Kobe to Yokohama, less than an hour's train ride from Tokyo. He knew that other attacks would continue, day after...