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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facetious Mayor Walker, who calls her "Ruth" and "so charming" when she asks him pertinent questions. She considers him amusing, yes, but a feather-and-glue obstruction to the serious party reforms she thinks Manhattan needs. Her boys go to Groton and Harvard. Her husband's father founded Pratt (Fine & Applied Arts) Institute in Brooklyn after helping to found Standard Oil. Her husband was the Pratt who jotted the memorandum which revealed "Andy" Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon) as one of those who were invited by Will Hays to take over some of the Liberty Bonds...
Therefore a Berlin taxi driver brought suit, last week, against a stingy "Polish" businessman who refused to give him more than 50 marks ($11.90), when the honest chauffeur found and restored $37,000 in unregistered, negotiable securities. The reward now legally demanded is 16,000 marks...
Inventor von Opel had placed a cat in his rocket car (TIME, June 4). He wished to test the resistance of a living organism to high speed. But the car never attained high speed. Instead it exploded. The cat was never found...
...French chauffeur could be found who would knowingly refuse right of way to the Marshal of France Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain...
Instead the railway doctor who has just prescribed for Mexico was found in Canada. He is Sir Henry Worth Thornton, since 1922 chairman of the Board and president of the Canadian National Railways. Last week the secret of his recent suspiciously informal visit to Mexico with Canadian railway colleagues was finally revealed...