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...people of the U. S. owed more money than ever before or since in their history???$26,596,701,648.01. On Dec. 31, 1927, they owed less than at any time since 1919?$18,036,352,451.81. This reduction of eight and one-half billions may be credited about proportionately to Secretary Andrew Mellon and his immediate predecessors, Carter Glass and David F. Houston. Each in his time brought the burden down at the rate of a billion per year...
...pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After the longest match in chess history???74 nights?there was a new champion...
...LOVE AFFAIRS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS?A Political History???Martin Hume?Brentano...
...Rachel Jackson?An Informal Biography. In it the story of the wife of Andrew Jackson was told in a chatty manner, a manner similar to that in which Mr. Minnigerode had previously retailed in the Post the faults and foibles and personal characteristics of other characters in U. S. history??? Aaron Burr and others...
There can be no doubt that this history???when it is completed?will be the most important contribution to the naval history of the War. Future generations of sailors will as certainly find it indispensable in their studies; for it will not easily be superseded...