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...victory; on the latter, defeat. Rumania's new King Carol approved the telephone monopoly granted the I. T. & T. by Parliament. The monopoly agreement is drawn up along the lines of the I. T. & T. Spanish concession. In China, on the other hand, the National Government last week termed invalid the franchise recently acquired by I. T. & T. to operate the telephone system in the International Settlement and the French Concession in Shanghai. The Chinese Ministry of Communications wants to take over these systems for the Government. "The Union of Chinese Telephone Subscribers" planned a telephone boycott...
...Author. Jean Cocteau lives in Paris where he likes to play at being an habitual invalid, draw a little, used to mix drinks for himself and friends in his own saloon. Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Not long ago, his fancy led him to embrace Catholicism. He is also fond of having his ascetic hands photographed as he lies in bed. Other works: Grand Ecart, Thomas the Impostor, A Call to Order...
...Yquem 1870 from the cellars of Eugenie, late ill-fated Empress of the French. After the dinner Charles Stambois, secretary of the club explained that "our plovers' eggs were not illegal because they were a gift," an excuse which the royal comptroller showed last week to be invalid. Nevertheless the board of agriculture, lax, had not up to last week taken steps against the Gourmets club...
...priests at California's Santa Clara Mission took care to be quiet last week as they strolled their ancient corridors. Talking amid the palm and olive trees in the garden, their voices were guarded and low. For in one of the mission chambers a venerable, white-haired invalid, with wrinkled, bespectacled eyes and a broad, benignant face, lay on what seemed likely to be his death bed. He was Father Jerome Sixtus Ricard, "The Padre of the Rains," and it seemed that his 80 years could not much longer resist the attacks of an ailing heart...
...committed in Russia is criminal if it is not criminal in Russia; 3) Under Soviet law the act of bigamy is not criminal, though if a man takes a second wife either she or the first may demand redress by bringing suit to have one of the marriages declared invalid...