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...queer eyes belonged to Dr. Frederick A. Cook and over the coffee cups, on that morning in 1909, they began his undoing. Mr. Gibbs, convinced that Dr. Cook was a liar and that he had never reached the North Pole, wired the Daily Chronicle seven columns to that ef fect. Meanwhile, Copenhagen received Dr. Cook with cheers and medals, wined and dined him. All the world applauded. But later evidence, including Robert E. Peary's return from the North Pole with news that he had found nothing to show that Dr. Cook had been there, proved that wary Reporter...
60th Anniversary. The fire damage was trivial (old boxes, rubbish and wastes in a fireproof sub-basement). Yet it caused more excitement in Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s marbled offices than did the celebration, the same week, ef the firm's 60th anniversary. Bankers of the neighborhood, had sent in some flowers; there were felicitations; and that was all. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. employes are trained to show no emotions. They treated the $3,000,000 of South African gold their company bought last week (the largest purchase of gold from London in several months) as a bookkeeping item. Nor did they...
...there at all! They seeked him down in Mexico, they cussed him in the press; They seeked him 'round the Capitol, an' everywhere I guess But all they ever found of him was whiskers, hair and clout- An' the Bolsheviks I'll get you ef you don't watch...
While His Majesty thus decreed economy, the Senate assisted his ef- forts to save the Belgian franc by unanimously ratifying the bill turn- ing the state railways over to a National Railway Co. (TIME, July 26). The proceeds from the sale of this company's preferred stock will be used as the nucleus of a franc-saving fund...
...glad they got in uh crack uhbout thet christmus tree on th' corner uv Tremont an' Boylstun Streets, better known ez James F Mahoney Square. Ef any uv these Harvard undergraduates understand whut th' thing is all uhbout--I mean th' Xmas tree signul--then there educatiun aint in vain...