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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Issue of July 29 contains a rather grating error on p. 21 second line under the third mention of the name STIMMING. "Mein herren"' is very poor. It should be "Meine Herren." Nouns are always capitalized no matter where they occur. "Mein" is singular but must agree with the plural of the modified noun in number, "Herren." You are giving yourself repeated boxes on the ears with such expressions...
...judges know of this quantitative test. They depend upon the layman's crude idea of drunkenness?can the accused walk a straight line, can he stand on one leg, can he clearly enunciate "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Perhaps a medico-legal diagnosis of just what does constitute drunkenness may evolve for the world from clinical investigations which Belgium's Societe de medecine legale now has under...
...elected Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson) to their board. This was not done because they pined for entertainment to alleviate the tediousness of meetings, nor alone for the goodwill that Singer Jolson will bring to aid them in selling his records, but mainly for the knowledge of the amusement line and the shrewd sense of business that Singer Jolson has shown. For contrary to the belief that all actors end in an Actors' Home, he has prospered financially and his operations in Warner Bros. (Vitaphone) stock alone are said to have made him a fortune...
Governors of the Manhattan Stock Exchange last week gave permission for the establishment of two branch brokerage offices on ocean liners. De Saint Phalle & Co. will open offices on the French Line ships France, He de France and Paris. M. J. Meehan & Co. will locate on the Cunarder Berengaria and the U. S. liner Leviathan. Details of keeping ocean travelers in touch with market fluctuations have not been announced. Engineers of Radio Corp. of America, however, have been working on a radio ticker.. Particularly appropriate as a wireless brokerage would seem the Meehan ocean-going branches, as broker Mike...
Died. Major Frank Brian Frederic Bibby, 36, of Sansaw, Shrewsbury, England, chairman of Bibby Steamship Line (England to India); off Loch Leven, Scotland, on his yacht...