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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pelican have been sighted in remote spots of Long Island...
...profits this year have run somewhat less than last. But production now is at 94% of capacity and is efficient. Directors again decided to pay no common dividends.) Lastly, happily and philosophically Tycoon Schwab presided over the yearly general meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, where for so long he had truculently endured subordinate place to the late Judge Gary. His epilogue: "Our country as a whole is still in the high tide of prosperity, and prospects for the immediate future are favorable...
...Long and expensive ($300,000) was the contest in the courts. Alone, Inventor Carson could not have financed it. But to his aid came many a friendly Westerner. Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco sugar and gas tycoon, organized the Carson Investment Co. to fight the Desert Rat's battle. And in February, 1925, Tycoon Spreckels went down to the waterfront boardinghouse to tell the Desert Rat he was worth $5,000,000, perhaps $20,000,000. He became a national celebrity over night. Hundreds of newspapers carried his story; hundreds of women found matrimony desirable...
Died. Gaetano Cardinal di Lai, 75, after a year and half of illness initiated by pneumonia. He was long a part of the very core of Roman Catholic Church administration and jurisdiction-as secretary of the Consistorial Congregation, as one of the 12 members of the Rota (Church supreme court), as one of the six Cardinal Bishops of the Hierarchy...
Sullivan, for all the delirious ridiculousness inherent in his music, had long been chafing at Gilbert's contagiously ridiculous topsy-turvydom. He had long cherished the ambition to do something more dignified, more pretentious, more "worthy" of his musical ability. Already he had demanded that Gilbert write something more substantial "without the supernatural and improbable;" Gilbert had bridled, rued, agreed to. capitulate, then blithely written?The Mikado! Superbly Sullivan matched improbable for improbable, comic for comic, and suspected miserably that he was belittling...