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Last week Judge Ben G. Williams of Frankfort instructed the Franklin County Grand Jury to bring in a Not Guilty verdict on Governor Sampson. Not only had the Governor not sold his textbooks for personal profit (he gave them to his secretary and she sold them). But, said Judge Williams: "Those publishing companies sent the textbooks as samples and they were not accepted as gifts. The resolution [for putting new books into Kentucky schools] required that such samples be sent...
Albert Bacon Fall made his first great expedition in the world when, aged 10, he accompanied his parents from Frankfort, Ky., his birthplace (1861), to Nashville, Tenn...
Fritz von Opel, youthful and imaginative automobile maker of Frankfort, Germany, after two unsuccessful attempts rose 250 feet in the air, flew six miles to an airplane given momentum not by a motor but by rockets. It was the first rocket-plane flight. Just before he started he had explained: "Before one attempts to fly to the moon, he must jump over the first milestone...
...Farbenindustrie last week strengthened its international position by adding the Swiss chemical industry to the European chemical cartel. For, though I. G. Dyes is not the entire German chemical industry, it does occupy a dominant position in its field, and growth of the cartel is reflected in prosperity at Frankfort. Prominence of Germany in the international chemical field is shown by the fact that cartel representatives, meeting in Paris, last week allotted 74% of the export trade to Germany, 17% to France and 8% to Switzerland. Sole check to cartel plans was the failure to bring Britain's chemical...