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Strictly speaking-though no one spoke strictly-the Conference met not in Lausanne, high above placid Lac Leman, but in suburban Ouchy at the water's brim, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beau-Rivage. Around an oblong table the delegates of 14 nations* faced each other with a great calm. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Premier Edouard Herriot, Chancellor Franz von Papen and the rest knew that their action must be to postpone action, adopt a temporary European moratorium and lay plans for drawing the U. S. into general cancellation of Reparations & Debts-after the U. S. elections...
...bottles of Lambert's Listerine and boxes of Lambert's throat tablets. Last week a merger was announced between Lambert Co. and Prophylactic Brush Co., on terms of one share of Lambert for two of Prophylactic. Although Lambert's $5,500,000 total assets are not double Pro-phy-lac-tic's $4,032,000, Lambert's high earnings make the merger desirable to Prophylactic shareholders. In the last few years Lambert has turned in this rapid progression: $1,288,000 in 1926; $2,998,000 in 1927; $4,447,000 in 1928; over $6,500,000 estimated...
...Minnesota, in the county of Lac qui Parle, in the township of Lac qui Parle, was born, 45 years ago, Theodore Christiansen. He has twice been elected Governor of his native state, in whose university he achieved Phi Beta Kappa, before whose bar he made a reputation, and at whose public banquets he became famed as a defender of Babbitts from the attacks of Minnesota's Sinclair Lewis. Last week he was re-elected for a third term on a record of economy and efficiency...
...Lac-Tic Brush Co. (tooth, hair, clothes brushes) reported largest earnings in its history (61 years), $726,491. Previous year...
...first became a barrister, defending poor clients who sought him at the inn. Strangely this scene was re-enacted last week in Geneva. Clients: representatives of all the Powers and half the nations of Europe. Briand: still Briand. Inn: the white, sumptuous Hotel des Bergues, overlooking Lac Leman and Overlooked by Towering Mont Blanc...