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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Best minds have often contended that Egypt ought not to have a Magna Carta. For example, Citizen Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at London in 1910, warmed the cockles of British hearts by shouting: "If you feel that you have no right to be in Egypt, if you do not wish to establish and keep order there, why, then, by all means get out of Egypt! . . . Some nation must govern Egypt. . . . I hope and believe that you will decide that it is your duty to be that nation!" Citizen Roosevelt had just topped off his famed African hunting expedition with an Egyptian...
Frank James Marshall, U. S. champion, is a large man with a red face and a hooked nose. He plays a dashing, "romantic" game; seldom draws but often loses. Marshall's style is fascinating to the onlooker, but usually does not finish him high up among first class players. He invented what is known as the Cambridge Springs variation in the Queen's Gambit. Marshall is also a bridge expert with a fondness for No Trump bids...
Last week Manhattan realtors tried to unfreeze their assets. They announced the formation of the New York Real Estate Securities Exchange. Such an exchange has been talked of for years, but though often discussed was always postponed.* This year, however, the real estate business has not been good. Money has been tight, credit high, realtors embarrassed. So the exchange idea was revived and on Oct. 1, at No. 12 East 41st St., the first real estate exchange in the world will open under the presidency of Cyrus C. Miller, Manhattan lawyer and member of the New York Real Estate Board...
...with the Harris fame came no fortune. The open Enquirer-Sun got few new subscribers, sometimes lost many old ones. One thousand subscriptions were cancelled after the initial Klan-basting. Fighting a fight where other Georgia papers feared to follow, the Enquirer-Sun never grew above 7,000 circulation, often went to many less. Mr. & Mrs. Harris stood alone...
Last June there was graduated from the East Orange, N. J., High School one John Osborn Reid, 19, interested in science and planning to go to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. Often he had driven by the Edison Laboratories, only three miles from his home, wondered what the insides were like, speculated on the personality of Inventor Edison whom he had seen only in the cinemas. Last week he and 48 other boys, specially chosen as the "brightest" from each state and the District of Columbia, inspected the famed laboratory, met Thomas Alva Edison, matched knowledge in what...