Word: highs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost royal. Alba can scarcely claim real ''fit- ness" to be Prime Minister. He is no man of business and great affairs like the Marquis de Urquito. Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct Cortes, the Duke has never held states- manly office or high military rank, is primarily a crony of the King and like him addicted to Biarritz, Deauville, St. Moritz. Doubtless Primo was more afraid of offending Alba, last week, than seriously perturbed lest the dilettante Duke seek executive Power...
...flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes with his "pencil"-a childishly simple high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery. If they go away and claim to be cured of everything from appendicitis to housemaid's knee that is their business. The Pencil Man will not take from any patient more than three Austrian shillings (42?). He seldom pencils...
...Business, no longer feared, has reached a position where it is looked to as the big benefactor in times of trouble. Only agreement of big business to maintain schedules can keep U. S. money flowing freely, send miners into the earth, steel workers to the tops of high buildings, loaded freight cars along new steel rails...
...gentlemen," said Father Verdier as he entered, clasping his hands in front of the sash of his soutane, "I scarcely know what to say to you, except that I have never placed my ambition so high as this! I would have greatly preferred to continue my work in the school. However I accept gratefully the orders of the Holy Father, and I will do all in my power to fill this high office worthily...
...Later the Lindberghs and hosts explored cliff-dwelling ruins to which Lindbergh led the way, having discovered from, the air a hitherto unknown path. Last weekend Col. Lindbergh paid a visit to Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) to learn more about high altitude rocket experiments (TIME. July 29). Said Informaniac Walter Winchell in the New York Mirror: "Of course it will be vigorously denied, but the Col. Chas. A. Lindberghs (Anne Morrow) anticipate a blessed event." General John Joseph Pershing, returning to the U. S. from France after eight months of work for the Battle Monuments...