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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This they did to protest a bill now before Parliament which would grant to a British firm monopoly for 60 years of Athenian taxicab and bus business. Should the bill pass, nearly all the taxicabs and busses now running in Athens would have to be scrapped or shipped elsewhere, for 75% are of U. S. manufacture, with Italian and French makes next, and British firms scarcely represented...
Famed U. S. architects such as the firm of Cram & Ferguson received within the past fortnight contracts for designs for eight chapels at European cemeteries where U. S. soldiers are buried...
...gentleman of 40, full-fleshed and well-garmented, wrote his cheque in London last week for ?5,000 ($24,300), passed it over to a firm of caterers, and received from them a contract to furnish him with two meals a day for the rest of his life but never to reveal his name, even after his death...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski, a daughter; in Manhattan. Mr. Stokowski, famed Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conductor, married (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926) Miss Evangeline Brewster Johnson, daughter of a founder of Johnson & Johnson, famed medicinal chemical firm. He has one daughter, Sonia, by his previous wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, now New York Evening Post musical critic, from whom he was divorced...
Meat Pact. The so-called "Argentine meat war" between the principal importing firms in England ended last week with a gentleman's agreement between Swift & Co., Armour & Co.; and the English firm of Vestey Brothers. To each concern was apportioned an agreed percentage of the business to be done. At present the only firms of consequence who are outside this agreement are the Smithfield and Argentine Meat Co. and its satellites. Britons, who dislike Argentine meat anyway, were not cheered by the prospect of having to pay more for it now that the price war is over...