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...animated by a progressive spirit, were ambitious to make it a "Queen City" once more. The two provocative phrases were a) that Cincinnati "has drooped, malnourished industrially:" b) that it "has become bedraggled and dirty." Both sentences were meant in a comparative sense. Comparatively, Cincinnati has drooped, many another midland city having shown a far greater rate of industrial growth in the last 50 years. As to dirt, last fortnight the American Society of Heat and Ventilating Engineers ranked Cincinnati as second-sootiest of 24 large U. S. cities−sootier than Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland...
...Prince of Monaco. Louis II (TIME, Jan. 2); and the President of the Irish Free State, William Thomas Cosgrave (TIME, Jan. 16). Upon landing Prince Louis effaced himself completely beneath an incognito and succeeded in vanishing from the cognizance of the press. President Cosgrave was scheduled to tour the Midland and Eastern States, explaining his government to Irish-Americans, and counteracting the propaganda of famed obstreperous Eamon De Valera, now in the U. S. attempting to raise campaign funds wherewith to disrupt Mr. Cosgrave's majority in the Free State Parliament...
...syndicate which bought the Telegraph last week is that of Sir William Berry, who controls the Daily Graphic, Sunday Times, and a great bloc of Midland newspapers, and who last year acquired a large interest in the publishing properties of the late Sir Edward Hutton...
...Earl of Oxford and Asquith (then Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith) was "reticent, secretive, reserved" and that he deliberately withheld information from his monarch. On one occasion he wrote to Premier Asquith asking him to tell Reginald McKenna, then First Lord of the Admiralty, now Chairman of the Midland Bank, that it was "his duty to keep His Majesty informed of fleet movements, to say nothing of common courtesy...
...London, Midland & Scottish R. R., Euston to Colwyn...