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Settling down to his main argument, Mayor Wilson expounded the Wilson Plan. Major knot in the P. R. T. tangle is the existence of what are known as "underlying companies." A considerable portion of the trackage over which the P. R. T. runs its cars is not owned by P. R. T., but by some 20 companies to which the original franchises were granted many years ago. Stock in these companies is owned by the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families. For the privilege of using these rights-of-way, P. R. T. pays annual leases which amount...
Tama-nishiki weighs 300 lb., wears his hair curled in a knot on top of his head, dresses in a 15-lb. fringed apron and an enormous belt made of twisted straw and paper streamers, looks as if he were proud of having just swallowed a medicine ball. He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan's most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years...
There newshawks chattered at the extended press tables. Capitol policemen in uniform circulated through the moving throng, trying to maintain order. A little knot of elderly financiers from Manhattan stood by themselves like new arrivals to be introduced at a large reception. And everywhere cameramen swarmed, climbed over one another, mounted chairs & tables, formed a living pyramid above half a dozen Senators who sat, all but lost from sight, at a long table at the end of the room...
...Deal, In sophisticated circles the main objective of Pierre ("Honest Broker") Laval last week was seen to be to halt the relentless march of League of Nations committees toward harsher & harsher Sanctions and to tie a knot in the banner of British idealism which has been unfurled at Geneva by handsome young Captain Anthony Eden. More specifically M. Laval was out to prevent the League from applying the crucial oil Sanction scheduled for last week. Released with the formal imprimatur of Britain and France, The Deal accomplished this initial purpose of abruptly halting for the first time the march toward...
...Home Secretary telephoned the news to the King at Sandringham Hall. His Majesty awoke the rest of the House of Windsor and for a while they all stood about in dressing gowns. Back in London, when the guns in the Tower of London boomed out, a knot of stay-ups formed in front of No. 3 Belgrave Square, sent up a considerately small cheer. Sir John, his duty done, had already gone home...