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Butler favoring Mr. Coolidge in the matter of silence. 'Have a cigar' serves in place of conversation. 'I collected,' said a man who was in there the other day, 'three cigars in three minutes and they were all Corona Coronas.' The only thing new about all this is the quality of the cigars. . . . Mr. Butler is a shrewd, hard-headed man. You feel that the Corona Coronas are not an accident. Like Alexander Hamilton, he can touch the rock of political resources and abundant streams of revenue will burst forth...
...similar to that adopted early this year in the case of Austria. The gist of the scheme is that Hungary is to turn over the revenue from customs and State monopolies to the League, in return for which the League will float a loan of 250,000,000 gold corona and establish budgetary equilibrium by June 30, 1926. The scheme is to go to Budapest for ratification and is to be discussed by a sub-committee of the League and representatives of the Little Entente in London during the month of January...
...during eclipse was among the apparatus used by the expedition, which has been called by Dr. Miller the "best equipped single expedition that has ever gone out to observe an eclipse of the sun." Other apparatus included a two flash spectroscope with which to obtain spectra of the corona,--the gaseous haze surrounding the dark disc during totality; an Einstein camera, the gift of Professor C. L. Poor of Columbia, and especially adapted to proving the Einstein gravitational theory, and a new type of interferometer called the "etalon", designed to detect motion in the Corona. In addition the apparatus included...
...photographer. Lieut. John Macready, transcontinental non-stop flyer, and George Stephens, the Army's crack photographer, ran into a heavy rainstorm and secured nothing. But aviators from the battle fleet squadrons, under command of Captain V. Marshall, secured satisfactory photographs of the eclipse, including the sun's corona...
First place in the annual competition for the Topiarian Club Trophy, open to students in the School of Landscape Architecture has been awarded to Richard Dean Sias 3S.L.A., of Corona, California. Second and third places went respectively to Herbert Devall Langhorne 1S.L.A., of Alameda, California, and Charles William Eliot 2nd. 2S.L.A., of Cambridge. Honorable mention was given to Malcolm Howard Dill 2S.L.A., of Richmond, Indiana...