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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over oil, last week (see col. 1), he took unto himself a pen and signed a new trade treaty with Italy, made necessary by the recent French tariff increases (TIME, March 12). France concedes to Italy lower duties on buttons, canned tomatoes, fruits, ventilators and women's hats, etc.; while Italy grants reductions on rabbit skins, precious stones, carpets, cheese, etc...
...bath in two years; how a wife complained that her husband had made her sleep in the chicken-coop and sell the hens' eggs to provide herself with necessities; how a husband complained that his wife had been attending strip poker parties when he was away at work, etc., etc. Most of the news in the first issue of Divorce was confined to New York State, but it will cover other states as it grows...
...Famed arty town; home of Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Rose O'Neill, Alan Dinehart, William McFee, etc...
Once an Eastern newspaper ran on its front page a box headed, "Who Robert Dollar Is." Under this caption were listed his formal titles and offices-President Dollar Steamship Company, Robert Dollar Company, Admiral Oriental Company, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, etc. etc., Director of the American International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar...
...meandered, day and night, elephants, "the good natured (until roused) bourgeois of the forest," the always bad-humored rhinos, the stupid hippopotami, dainty Abyssinian bushbucks and their antelope and gazelle cousins, gossipy baboons, antbear and wart hogs, genets, and the carnivorous jackals, hyenas, leopards, lions, reptiles, nightingales, storks, flamingoes, etc...