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President Coolidge had little success with the problem. Last week President Hoover announced his solution of the boundary dispute. It provided: 1) Chile to retain Arica and its nitrate fields, Peru to take Tacna with its vineyards; 2) Chile to pay Peru six million dollars; to deliver all government buildings in Tacna to Peru without cost; 3) both nations to erect jointly a monument on the morro of Arica to commemorate the peaceful settlement of the dispute...
...afflatus which he gave to U. S. aviation has in the two years become a mighty thing. A two-hundred-million-dollar air industry has developed. The airmail, which Paul Henderson systematized with difficulty when he was Second-Assistant Postmaster-General (1922-25)*, at the beginning of this month was operating over 22,778 mi. of airways, with 3,975 mi. more scheduled soon...
None of the six U. S. communities with more than one million population (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia) had more than two typhoid deaths per 100,000. Healthiest section of the U. S. from the typhoid aspect is New England; sickliest, the east south-central region...
...Automotive Daily News. On May 15, Automotive Daily News, automobile trade paper, published a story concerning an alleged new Reo eight. Reo Motor Car Co. promptly filed suit for one million dollars libel, calling the story "utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...
...Record. Rich and social is Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, famed as owner of the Hope diamond, and as a friend of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, March 10, 1924). Last week he sued the Philadelphia Record, a Democratic daily, for one million dollars damages on account of libel which Plaintiff McLean described in his declaration as "false, wicked, malicious, scandalous and defamatory." This he did because, said he, the Philadelphia Record did wickedly contrive and falsely and maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause it to be suspected...