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...being installed. It was procured for the 10-inch Metcalf triplet, an instrument specially suitable for studies of the faint Milky Way variable stars. The next new mounting to go south will be that of the new 60-inch reflecting telescope, which is to be the largest astronomical instrument in the southern hemisphere. Both the mirror and the mounting are in process of construction in Pittsburgh, and the mounting will probably be shipped before the end of the calendar year. The new reflector will be devoted to various studies, where great light-gathering power is essential. Among its problems will...
Thomas D. Campbell of Hardin, Mont., was a welcome White House caller. He, farmer on the largest scale in the U. S., assured President Coolidge that the farm "crusade" (see p. 13) was an unjust political ruse and fiction. . . . Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow was an interesting White House caller. The President passed a whole day hearing about Mexico. He called in Secretary of State Kellogg to hear too. . . . Vice President Dawes was an entertaining White House caller. He accompanied 15 other Republican notables to a Coolidge breakfast and made great sport of small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana for wearing...
...town and started a newspaper, the Star. He campaigned for parks, boulevards, better residential architecture. He got public baths built and a commodious Convention Hall. An eccentric old Kentucky colonel, Thomas H. Swope, grew so enthusiastic that he donated 1,354 acres to give Kansas City, Mo., the fourth largest public park in the U. S.* Swope Park, with its bathing beach, golf courses, tennis courts, bridle paths, zoo is one of the happiest things that ever happened to a city, though the buzzards that sometimes circle over it, especially during drought, are reminders of the gruesome death...
...fine, where Cooks will take you, it must be safe to go. Last week this largest tourist firm announced, for the first time, that they will hereafter make travel arrangements "for all those who may wish to go to Soviet Russia...
...head a great motor company of his own name. He went to impoverished Maxwell ; cut down its debts ; and in 1925, as controller of the new Chrysler Corp., absorbed Maxwell. Mr. Brady became a Chrysler director; and Jules S. Bache, who heads one of the world's largest stock market brokerage houses. And when James Cox Brady died last November, his brother Nicholas Frederic Brady took over his directorate in the Chrysler Corp. and also his admiration for Walter Percy Chrysler...