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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsmen and Senators have a joint technique about secret sessions. When the Senate bells jingle three times, Superintendent James D. Preston of the Senate Press Gallery shooes all correspondents out of the gallery, closes its big double doors, locks them with an immense key and, for good measure, props a swivel chair against them...
...dignity of the title of Marshal of France will be allowed to disappear by extinction of those now bearing it." Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing of a rank which goes back to the 12th Century, which...
Lately Mr. McAdoo, who now is practicing law in Los Angeles and Washington, D. C., bought himself a Wasp-motored Lockheed-Vega ship with seats for five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...
Railman Frank Taplin, 55, began his industrial career 42 years ago, started in as office boy for no less famed an employer than John D. Rockefeller Sr. (The present "Taplin interests" include a vague but potent backing from the Rockefeller family, whereas the Van Sweringens are more directly indebted to the House of Morgan.) Mr. Taplin's father was manager of the refined oil department and was later vice president of the old Standard Oil Co. But it was coal, not oil, that founded the Taplin future. In 1900 Mr. Taplin became salesman for Pittsburgh Coal...
...pictures, and for Tyron Hall, his two-million-dollar estate on upper Riverside Drive. Once, when he had accumulated so many Old Masters that the walls of his new California estate would not accommodate them all, he sold 31 canvases, including eight Corots, for $410,000. In 1917 John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought Tyron Hall, gave it to the city...