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...Irish Free State Government "advised" King-Emperor George V, last week, to appoint a new Governor General to the Irish Free State. His Majesty was further "advised" that an acceptable appointee would be James McNeill, now resident in London as High Commissioner for the Irish Free State...
Since times have changed, the King-Emperor accepted both these pieces of advice, last week. Mr. McNeill will take office as Governor General late in January. His appointment does not mean that Irishmen are dissatisfied with crusty but beloved Governor General Timothy Healy. It merely happens that "Tim" has vice-regally represented the Crown for the customary period of five years and that the appointment of his successor is a matter of empire "routine...
...only to epicures. If the company had factories in the U. S. and Canada and if it employed skilled advertising agencies, it would sell untold numbers of jars & cans of jams and other preserves, just as the solidly established U. S. firms, like H. J. Heinz Co. and Libby, McNeill & Libby, do. Such expansion requires money, which might be raised by sale of Crosse & Blackwell stock. To do that, company directors last week asked their stockholders' permission. Some stockholders shouted "absolute robbery"; others "gross injustice." A majority, however, approved the plan. As soon as the company sells its stock...
Before he died, James Abbott McNeill Whistler sold one of his most famed canvases to the Luxembourg, one of Paris' great art galleries. The consideration for the transfer was small, and Whistler is supposed to have understood that some time after his death it would be translated to the magnificent Louvre and hang among the great masters. Whistler died in 1903, but the picture still hangs in the Luxembourg. It is unusual for paintings to be hung in the Louvre until some 50 years after an artist's death...
Blandly Mr. McNeill replied: "For typewriting...