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Jones. A prominent member of the coal business nowadays is "Tad" Jones. The public knows him better as the old-time coach of Yale football teams. Mr. Jones used to welcome to Yale physiques like coal heavers. Now he employs physiques like that professionally, and for his private yacht, the T. A. D. Jones, sturdy collier. Last week, off the New Jersey coast, the T. A. D. Jones was fired on, stopped by the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Seneca...
...Gastonia was named for William Gaston (1788-1844)-Princeton graduate (1796), member of the 13th and 14th Congresses from North Carolina, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1833-1844), friend of Webster and Clay-and not for his later kinsman, onetime (1875-76) Governor William Gaston of Massachusetts, as stated by TIME, April 8. Carolina's Judge Gaston, for his character and learning, was elected to the bench in spite of a provision of the State Constitution then barring Roman Catholics from public office...
...committee did succeed in agreeing on the nature and functions of the proposed international bank of settlement (TIME, March 11, 25), and at the very worst, that notable achievement, set forth in a voluminous report, will crown the labors of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Young. Said a member of the Japanese delegation when things looked blackest last week, "I am deeply sorry for our chairman. Mr. Young has done everything a man could possibly do to make for success. It is a shame that his wonderful work should be branded with defeat. He deserved something far, far better!" Allied Bulls...
...Polish cabinet was inaugurated in Warsaw last week under the protective wing of fierce, crop-haired Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Major Kasimir Switalski, Wartime member of Pilsudski's famed Polish Legion, is the new Prime Minister. Three of the other ministers are colonels, members of Marshal Pilsudski's inner "Colonel Clique...
When the Manhattan brokerage house of de Saint Phalle & Co. last month divulged (to customers, thence to prying newsgatherers) its balance sheet, the other 614 member houses of the New York Stock Exchange confessed their surprise. Neither brokerage houses, such as de Saint Phalle, nor banking houses, such as J. P. Morgan & Co., are inclined to follow corporation practice and announce their financial standing. De Saint Phalle & Co., revealed total assets of some $33,000,000. Last week it appeared that the same prosperous, socially prominent de Saint Phalles* would sponsor yet another innovation. Within two months, their office...