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Miscellaneous. He favors: "The inauguration of the President and the Vice President and the convening of the new Congress within a few weeks after election, instead of on the following Mar...
...Vichère [composed of vie, life, chère, dear?high cost of living] ; l'Abbesse du Franc [Abbesse means abbess, but it is here a play on the English word abyss; hence, the abyss of the franc, an allusion to the franc's tremendous fall in the Spring (TIME, Mar. 17) when Millerand was President...
...Netherlands, accompanied by Prince Consort Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and her only daughter, Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, repaired to Sweden for a visit to King Gustaf and Queen Victoria. The visit is to return that made by King Gustaf to The Hague in 1923 (TIME, Mar...
Juan J. Tomadelli, inventor and owner of "bottled sunshine" (TIME, Mar. 10), whom the Attorney General of New York State sought to enjoin from selling capital stock in his scientifically-suspected, self-feeding lamp, was upheld by ex-Supreme Court Justice New-burger, who, as referee, dismissed the proceedings. The opinion held that, although two illuminating experts had declared (without examination) that Tomadelli's lamp violated well-known scientific principles, the burden of proof was on the plaintiff (the Attorney General) to show that the representations of the promoter were consciously false and made with intent to deceive...
...than three months' capacity business. Since the War the high point in U. S. Steel bookings was reached July 31, 1920, at 11,118,468 tons. From that point, tonnage declined to 4,141,069 tons on Feb. 28, 1922, then rose to 7,403,332 tons on Mar. 31, 1923, and from that point has fallen steadily except for a brief rally last Winter...