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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desk at No. 4 Grosvenor Gardens, Mrs. Dawes and daughter Virginia sped to the Ambassadorial home in Prince's Gate (once J. Pierpont Morgan's), began unpacking furniture. Early the next day Mr. Dawes decked himself in a morning coat, clapped a silk hat on his head, hustled to Paddington Station, where British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson stood stiffly awaiting. Mr. Dawes grabbed his hand, said something to make him smile, hustled into a train for Windsor to present his credentials to the King. No predecessor had ever done this so soon after his arrival...
Each house contains within it complete accommodations for a narriedmaster, a Dining Hall, a Common Room for students and one for tutors, and a large library situated on the second floor in the most strategic situation in the house. There will be also an apartment for the head tutor suites for five or six resident tutors and suites about evenly divided between singles and doubles for from 250 to 300 men. Whether squash courts are practical or not has not yet been fully worked out by the architects. If they are found possible they will undoubtedly be included...
...slaughter-housed, is packed into cans and sold as foodstuff. In this country, to be sure, only well-to-do dogs eat horsemeat. On the Continent, poor people consume it. In French and Belgian villages are many equine butcher shops where only horse meat is sold. A stuffed horse head hangs over the doorway, to distinguish them from "chacuteries" (pork shops) where a pig's head holds the place of honor. Nor is horse meat particularly unpalatable. A little tough, perhaps, and not very tasty, yet between a relatively succulent morsel of horse and a comparatively gristly portion...
Famed NELA (National Electric Light Association) last week convened at Atlantic City for its 52nd convention and exhibition. There able Matthew S. Sloan, head of New York Edison Co., said that the electric industry could well grant lower rates on current for domestic use, that such rates would result in greater use of vacuum cleaners, of electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought...
When, last January, the U. S. Shipping Board announced bids for ships of the United States and the American Merchant Lines, highest bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman, who is head of P. W. Chapman. Inc., of Chicago and Manhattan and whom anyone but a newsman can interview at any time. After a wrangle with die-hard government-owning Senators, the Chapman bid was accepted. Last week the Shipping Board opened bids on ships of the American Diamond and the America France Lines, which operate freighters between U. S. and French, Dutch and Belgian ports. Again Bidder Chapman was high...