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Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun and they have not. - Hilaire Belloc. Rudyard Kipling, shaggy-browed poet of British imperialism, who would never have written such a cynical (and honest) observation as Poet Belloc's, was 66 last fortnight. The Kipling Society had a banquet in London presided over by grey-haired Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, better known as the original Stalky. Poet Kipling did not attend. He stayed with his big, quiet, little-known wife, thinking. Days like the days of his youth seemed at hand. Last week a detachment of 400 officers...
...bulletins. Sample: "No matter how hard we try, we cannot make the B. & O. the greatest, straightest or richest railroad, but we can. if we try hard enough, create for it the reputation of being the best railroad in the world from the point of service." A prime Willard maxim: "Be a good neighbor." Farmer boys and girls up and down his line get settings of eggs. Officials are sent to make friends with local shippers. And in 1927 "Uncle Dan'' put on a 23-day pageant ("The Fair of the Iron Horse") outside Baltimore to show what his road...
...well-established maxim that the world withholds full approval of its prophets and guides, so long as they are still living. In the contemporary world, Mahatma Gandhi appears to be a striking exception to this rule. His political creed and conduct are too well-known to need rehearsing, but the effect they have produced justifies special emphasis. The whole-hearted support which he enjoys in India is impressive in itself, but the reception which he, although its avowed enemy, received as a visitor to England, seems like an even more remarkable instance of the triumph of a moral ideal...
While mental hygienists, efficiency experts and city officials have been bewailing the maddening effects of city noise, Hiram Percy Maxim has been manufacturing noise mufflers at Hartford, Conn. Last week he announced that his Maxim Silencer Co., of which he is president and his only son Hiram Hamilton is chief engineer and whose factory is in Asylum Street, Hartford, will-besides continuing to make silencers for guns, motor exhausts, safety valves, air releases, in fact every kind of pipe which emits a gas-offer a consulting service in noise abatement. Chief abater will be "Dr. Shush," the Maxim trademark character...
...last week where as Japanese Ambassador he has stubbornly defended Japan before the League Council (TIME, Oct. 5 et seq.). Recalled by his father-in-law, tiny Mr. Yoshizawa who incessantly puffs enormous black cigars, took a ticket for Moscow where he will talk Manchuria with Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, then hurry across the trans-Siberian Railway to Manchuria and finally to Japan...