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Observers recalled that the present, sumptuous U. S. Ambassadorial Residence at No. 2, Avenue d'lena, Paris, was purchased and bestowed upon the State Department by the present U. S. Ambassador to France, famed Clevelander Myron Timothy Herrick...
...Author of "Bailey and Public Opinion An Analysis of the Mind of Yale's President-Emeritus", "An Original Interpretation of Sexual Phenomena. A Letter to the Yale News," "The Ice Lena A Four-Act Play on Academic Immoralities," "Why the Bulldog is Losing His Grip Secret Chapters in Yale Football History," and "My Dismissal From the Carnegle Institute of Technology...
...granted to foreign interests in Soviet Russia are, say Miss Thompson & Mr. Lee, 1) The Mologoles concessions granted to a German syndicate of which onetime German Chancellor Wirth was the head; 2) The Caucasian manganese concessions let to W. A. Harriman and associates of Manhattan; and 3) the Lena Goldfields concession, granted to Britons. Generally speaking, Mr. Lee appears to mistrust the good faith of the Soviet Government in connection with the recently defunct Mologoles concessions and the Harriman scheme which is now going forward under a completely revised contract "far more favorable to Mr. Harriman...
Miss Thompson reports the Lena Goldfields to be "immensely profitable" and Mr. Lee corroborates that an official of the British company described its progress to him as "entirely satisfactory." Again probing deeper, Miss Thompson claims to have ascertained that very many small, private concessionaires "are making enormous profits, profits which they could not possibly expect to draw in any European country or America." She adds: "An ideal concession is that of a Danish button company which makes buttons from pressed blood obtained from Russian slaughter houses, and has acquired a fortune in a very short time...
...Place d'lena, Paris, almost under the bronze nose of George Washington's horse,* a group of notable Frenchmen gathered around a hollowed building stone last week. They were men potent in French science, politics and industry. Mingled among them, like atoms of a great molecule of reverence, were diplomats of foreign countries. The nucleus of their thoughts was the stone...