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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading your Miscellany column in the last issue of TIME (Aug. 20) I think it would be more fitting and proper to head the column with the word Morbidities, or words to that effect...
Coincident with this new eruption of an old but by no means superannuated volcano, came a statement from the London Times to the effect that its readers might soon expect the publication of a comparatively complete report of the oft-reported but still mysterious Malines Conversations. In its statement, the Times asserted that at the time of the Malines Conversations an unofficial representative of the Vatican expressed Rome's willingness to grant the British Primate a rank in the Roman hierarchy "equal to and perhaps above the cardinals," should he desire to accept the Roman Catholic faith...
...gone as the guest of its famed tenant, Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell Oil (TIME, Aug. 20), Walter Clark Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, last week sent a telegram. It was addressed to the London office of the Associated Press. In effect it read: "Tut-tut!" Actually it read...
...rival Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Ltd. Abitibi Power holdings, developed and in reserve, amount to 700,000 h. p. Timber resources approximate 55,000,000 cords. Its mills can turn out 650,000 tons of newsprint yearly. Should Abitibi merge with International Paper, the resulting company would in effect dominate the world's newsprint production, would be one of the major power units of North America...
...first reading, this appeared to be saying, in effect: "We guarantee a tire for so long as nothing happens to it." But closer study revealed this meaning: "We guarantee that so long as a tire has enough rubber and cotton to hold it together, it will not fail because of any defect in material or workmanship...