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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Says von Falkenberg: "Improving each week. In fact there has been less use of that 'tycoon,' for I, like the wondrous monk of Siberia got weary and weary and wearier...
...must ratify, and we must ratify in a form which will permit our creditors to accept our ratification. It is not a question of ratifying the debts. We have already recognized our debts. What we have got to ratify is the accords which have given us delays for settlement...
...flew a second Bellanca, one- Whirlwind-motored Pathfinder, unerringly from Old Orchard, Me., to Santander, Spain, where gas shortage had forced the Old Orchard-Paris Yellow Bird down three weeks prior (TIME, June 24). Gas shortage also arrested the Pathfinder's flight. Bound for Rome, she rose again and got there without another stop...
...Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...
Cartoonist Bud Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) found many a stray dog last year on his newly-purchased Carmel, N. Y., estate. He ordered his Negro butler, James Bell, to get rid of them. This Butler Bell did, darkly, until only one dog was left. When, last week, he got around to this dog, Mr. Fisher's caretaker, Frank Candee, protested. Caretaker Candee had become attached to the dog. Butler Bell paid no heed, raised his rifle, killed the creature. Caretaker Candee, irate, got out a knife. Butler Bell, standing in the driveway, raised his gun again and fired five times more...