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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rickard. George L. ("Tex") Rickard, Manhattan prizefight promoter, who was indigent when he left Texas years ago, went to Houston in a private car. His opinion was sought on some holes in the glass of an elevator door in the Rice Hotel. They were supposed to be bullet holes made by a Texan impatient for an elevator. Opined Promoter Rickard: "They were made by some fellow with his cane...
Married. William Faversham Jr., 22, actor (The Ivory Door) and actor's son; to Sarah Q. Shaw, of Concord, Mass.; in Concord...
...into furnaces. Hitherto, on the experiment freighter Mercer, the coal has been pulverized in one machine, then distributed to three furnaces, but the latest improvement provides each furnace with its own pulverizer and does away altogether with the problem of distribution. The new pulverizer is attached to the door of any furnace. Like a large coffee mill, it grinds the coal until talcum powder would look coarse in comparison; sprays it into the greedy furnace where it becomes incandescent almost immediately...
...182.That such is still the intent of Japan was shown last week when Vice President Yousuke Matsuoka of the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway said : "Our policy, frankly, is peace at any price. . . . Japan will close the door to any Chinese army which seeks to carry on Civil War north of the Great Wall...
Hearst now has 24 newspapers, ten magazines, eight feature, news and film services, also the Cosmopolitan Book Corp. Indeed, there is no danger of the wolf growling at Hearst's door. Good Housekeeping alone is capable of buttering Hearst's bread and of satisfying his large passion for antiques. He may be old (65), but he is not yet ready to get out of journalism. Rather, he is trimming his properties, consolidating them, fertilizing the hardy ones, weeding out the weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit...