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...Manhattan, Professor Huber, manager of a troupe of fleas, conducted his performers from a burning building to the street with the loss of only one, J. Caesar, who did the gladiatorial act. Said a bystander to Professor Huber: "You must treat them gently to make them so obedi- ent." Said he: "I treat 'em gentle or I treat 'em rough according to their nature and their needs. They're artists...
...features were slowly maturing, hardening, this change was obscured by the fact that when one beheld the King, one's attention was monopolized by the little tufts of black. Not until the "dentist" put away his "tooth-brush"?not until the historic week when His Majesty w ent to Paris and there shaved off his mustache (TIME, Nov. 26)?did 12,000,000 Jugoslavs begin to recognize that his matured and resolute countenance is that of a dictator (see front cover...
...Tuesday the good news came. From Chicago, President George B. Everitt† wrote stockholders. Interesting was the promise that Jan. 1 would see 200 chain stores in operation. But transcend ent for traders was the common stock increase from 1,285,000 to 6,000,000 shares, giving stockholders the right to buy two new shares, at $17.50 each, for every share now held...
...began with a rehearsal of Tennes¬see's pioneer times, telling how his great-great- grandfather started West from that region. He rehearsed the industrial prog¬ress of the so-called New South within the seven and one-half years of the pres¬ent Administration, citing increases in crops, automobiles, telephones, life insurrance, etc. etc., and reminding the South that the Commerce Department's southern branch offices had been increased from three in 1920 to 29 now. He said he was sure the South would agree that a change in the Government's policies "can bring only distress and disaster...
...bondholders, own the onetime Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, a system estimated at $750,000,000. They bought it at an auction sale in Butte, Mont., last week for $140,000,000 and their promise to untangle the road's debts, no light task. For the pres-ent there will be no change among the operating executives. But the system's name has been altered to the Chicago, Milwaukee & Pacific Railroad, with "The Milwaukee" as the nickname to be popularized. In St. Paul, famed neighbor of famed Minneapolis, Minn., this renaming is viewed with vexation...