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...went the cork, and Cuba's President Ramon Grau San Martin gratefully drained a glass of champagne last week with Spain's Ambassador Luciano Lopez Ferrer. The occasion was Spain's formal recognition of Cuba's latest government. Spain was the first European nation so to act, though Mexico, Uruguay, Peru and Panama had already done so. ¶Cuba's long-threatened general strike again failed to materialize. President Grau settled himself a little more solidly in the saddle by signing a smart decree. To persuade Cuba's wild-eyed, well-meaning students...
...week pointedly dropped the account of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Wilfred Washington Fry, Ayer son-in-law president of the firm, is a Baptist Y. M. C. A. man, ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled to Repeal, Mr. Fry on learning that Canada Dry would soon be selling beer and whiskey, insisted that N. W. Ayer should drop the account...
...from the fact that his hair, his eyes, his temper and his voice are all red. At 59 he snorts loudly at the elaborate technical training of modern midshipmen, is proud that he first went to sea at 14, that though he is heir presumptive to the Earl of Cork and Orrery he acquired his entire education aboard the oldtime training ship Britannia...
Makers of cork and other forms of heat insulation were receiving orders for insulation of brewery vats. General Motors announced that the Frigidaire plants at Dayton had jumped from three-to six-day-a-week production, had in the last month spent $1,100,000 for new plant equipment. Reason: daily production of 300 units for cooling draft beer and new home refrigerators with space for a full case of beer...
Through the interest of friends of the Association, according to Peregrine White '33, president, the lunchroom in the basement of Brooks House has been redecorated with foreign railroad posters, wall lampshades and new curtains, selected to harmonize with the table decorations. Within a few days, a cork bulletin board will be in place, to serve as the center of announcements as to athletics and meetings. Under the supervision of E. S. Amazeen sGB, Graduate Secretary of the Association, a sandwich concession has been grant- ed to two undergraduates, who will provide sandwiches priced downwards from five cents for the commuting...