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Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India-head of an empire that covers one-fourth of the earth's surface and has 500,000,000 subjects, would probably have been the envy of that ambitious little monarch Henry VIII. The luckless, unpopular Stuarts would have grown green with jealousy had they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost...
...Biggest single group (one-third) got their first jobs by going out and hunting for them. One-fourth got jobs through experience gained in self-support during college, about one-fifth through college placement bureaus, one-tenth through family influence, 2% through fraternity contacts...
...Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia Record reporter, David Greendrug Wittels, recently toured the schools of eight coal counties, returned with a grim tale. With mines shut down and coal operators owing millions in local taxes (Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Corp. alone owes $3,000,000), about one-fourth of the school districts could not pay their teachers. Some 6,000 teachers all told had received no pay for one to ten months. Hundreds were on relief. To support their families, others worked after school hours as undertakers, night watchmen, store clerks, life-insurance salesmen, coal bootleggers...
...monster of the imagination," predicted that it would fall down. Alexandre Dumas, fils, called it a "horror." Because of "this torturing, inevitable nightmare," Guy de Maupassant fled the capital. M. Eiffel smiled, gave his personal fortune to finish the Tower, after Government funds ran out when it was one-fourth completed. The Tower attracted nearly two million cash customers in its first year, brought its builder wealth and made him an officer in the Legion of Honor...
...measure, $18,830,946 more than approved by the House, carries appropriations for 784 new army planes, approximately one-fourth of the number necessary to raise the Air-Corps to a full authorized strength of 6,000 first-line fighting craft. Debate may start next Monday, with passage expected within...