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...Occidental quarter of Tientsin the U. S. business community was well guarded last week by 500 U. S. soldiers of the 15th Infantry. Their commander, Col. James D. Taylor, declared a War Department spokesman, "is a man of enough experience not to be upset by minor dis- orders...
...Rubens in the world. The pink stucco, palladian-arched John & Mable Ringling Museum contains about 20 galleries and features mountainous bronze reproductions of Michaelangelo's David and the Father Nile and Father Tiber from the Vatican Gardens. It is useless to show him modern pictures, but dealers have dis covered that if they have nothing large, a religious subject is often a temptation. Ten years ago he decided to build a museum for his collection. The pink Venetian palace in Sarasota was the result ; the museum idea expanded into the art school and junior college. Mr. John imported...
...Three were important. Dino Grandi, Italy's black-fringed young Foreign Minister, stood up and proposed "that all nations should reach an immediate general agreement with a view to arriving at the suspension of the execution of their new armament programs," at least until the end of the approaching dis armament conference in February. German delegates applauded wildly, but other wise, like most suggestions that the League members should actually do something, the speech was greeted with shocked silence...
...James Nolan, Wartime aviator and Los Angeles banker, confirmed re ports of his resignation as board chairman of Bank of America National Trust 6 Savings Association, subsidiary of Transamerica Corp. Sailing W . Baruch, father, and Donald Edward Baruch, son, filed with the New York Stock Exchange a proposal to dis solve the firm of Sailing W. Baruch...
...orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite The Horrible Hemingways - That's We! When aged Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny sought to become a Hemingway, he was firmly blackballed. Undaunted, he gave a party. Knowing that the object of the Horrible Hemingways is to insult, dis tress, embarrass and in all ways annoy one's acquaintances as much as possible, he had the floor waxed so smooth that no one could stand up. He was elected. His daughter-in-law and granddaughter are also members...