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...putting the Reserve Bank chairmanships on a "purely honorary basis." Net result in the first week was the laconic announcement that services of six of the ten present chairmen (there are two vacancies) would be "terminated" at the end of April. Presumably they found an "honorary basis" somewhat hollow. Two other chairmen- Atlanta's H. Warner Martin and Cleveland's E. S. Burke Jr. - apparently accepted the "honor." Another two were lucky...
...Kansas City, American Butter Co.'s President L. H. Smith astonished his friends by cracking open a normal-looking egg out of which fell a hollow cork out of which Mr. Smith took a note written to himself. To prepare the trick, Robert E. Phillips Jr., postgraduate student of poultry husbandry at Kansas State College, had busied himself anesthetizing hens, inserting in their egg ducts hollow corks containing notes to Mr. Smith. Finally a hen laid an egg with a cork...
When examined carefully, the offers of the Reich government all bear the familiar ear-marks of the proverbial gift-horse. Frankly, all have that hollow ring; the appearance of flimsy subterfuge; the look of ill-disguised bad-faith. France must assume a stern, unyielding attitude at once if she is to preserve her prestige, and retain the support and alliance of the Soviet. Germany must be faced now and beaten in this desperate gamble, for in five or ten years time, she, and not France, will be once more the King-pin on the European alley...
Closer to the old-fashioned esthete is hollow-eyed, taciturn Maurice Sterne, hard at work in California last week on a panel for the Department of Justice. Once a bottle washer in a Manhattan saloon, he later spent many peaceful years in Italy, taught Edward Bruce, a prime advocate of the Government's new deal for artists, how to paint...
...occasions when a parturient woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen. With the idea of trying to do the same with the wounded butcher boy, the surgeons sopped wads of cheesecloth into the bloody hollow of his chest, wrung them out in a glass pitcher. Thus they quickly recovered almost a quart of blood...