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...parliamentary body with the longest continuous history is Iceland's Althing. Founded to settle disputes between bellicose land-owning chieftains, it celebrates its millennial (1,000th anniversary) next year. The U. S. Congress has received an invitation to attend the ceremony, through the Danish Minister.* Last week the house of Representatives accepted the invitation, after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson...
...hearts justification for the acceptance of such an honor for a service rendered as private citizens which any number of other Americans could or would have done as well. . . ." When fog trapped the Aquitania 200 miles out of New York, slowing her progress, Hero Young became impatient. The next day his eldest son, Charles Jacob Young, was being married in Cleveland to Miss Esther Marie Christensen. From Paris Hero Young had promised his prospective daughter-in-law to attend her wedding, even if the Reparations compact had to be rushed to signature. It was early evening before the liner paused...
...Next to ignoring Prohibition, the most polite and popular form of U. S. lawbreaking is Beating the Customs. Prime practitioners, in the amateur field, are wealthy ladies who count it a fashionable triumph, indicative of cleverness, to succeed in smuggling personal purchases made abroad, with the sporting risk of paying a 100% fine if caught. One-quarter of fines imposed goes to informers who tip off Customs inspectors. No smart smuggler will tell her best friend, until afterwards. This, the summer season, with tourists jamming every liner, is the time when inspectors are busiest, ladies most cunning...
...between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went back to headquarters for assistance. Eugster & friends came back. A fight started. Eugster was shot by Cox, died the next clay. The U. S. quickly exonerated Cox for a killing "in line of duty...
...other The Magazine of Business. Both were monthlies. The first concerned itself with Office Management, the second with Big Business. In such form they became a part, last year, of the chain of magazines published by McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.* Last week another change was announced. Starting with next September, The Magazine of Business will become a weekly called The Business Week. System will go on as before. But The Business Week, instead of having general discourses on business, industry, finance, will pertain most specifically to business news, with merely some of the features of the old magazine. Thus...