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...King Edward VII ("The stars would be grievously afflicted"), death of Tammany Leader Charles Francis Murphy of acute indigestion ("Unfriendly stomach"). Col. Theodore Roosevelt's defeat by Alfred Emanuel Smith for 1920 New York Governor ("He couldn't be elected to the school board in his native village of Oyster Bay"). Love and money were Evangeline Adams's chief astrological problems; love chiefly before January 1930, money after January 1930. Her specialty: finance...
...Motoring from Oyster Bay to Manhattan one evening last week, Mrs. Ethel Roosevelt Derby, T. R.'s second daughter, halted her car at a filling station. "Gas?" asked the attendant. "No, radio," replied Mrs. Derby. Thereupon she tuned in the attendant's set, heard a familiar voice: "For the good of the nation we must re-elect Herbert Hoover. We don't want our country to be made a laboratory for wholesale experiments in government ownership, tariff tinkering or currency inflation. I don't accuse the Democratic standard bearer of advocating all these theories...
...Oysters make both Oriental and Mikimoto pearls. When Mother Nature annoys an oyster by permitting a tiny bit of some irritating substance to get under its shell, the oyster reacts by covering this substance with layer on layer of pearly nacre, and the result is called an Oriental pearl. When Mr. Mikimoto annoys the oysters in his 41,000 acres of oyster beds by having a minute substance delicately inserted in the body of each oyster, the oysters react by producing about $1,000,000 worth of Mikimoto pearls a year. In gratitude Mr. Mikimoto has erected a monument...
...price of "real" Orientals.* In Japan spry Grandpa Mikimoto, 75, is the undisputed "Pearl King," purveys Mikimoto pearls to the Imperial Court. Speaking only Japanese and proud of his eccentricities, Pearl King Mikimoto loves to fete Occidental visitors to his pearl farm. First they are given baskets of Mikimoto oysters. Next Mikimoto minions open each guest's oysters, extract the pearls and present them to the guests, throw the oyster meat and shells away. Pearl King Mikimoto then leads the way to lunch which begins with fried oysters in which the guests find badly discolored pearls...
Back to Asia. The idea having been thus pedigreed (and U. S. observers admitted that it sounded very much like the ideas that used to emerge from the Oyster Bay rocking chair during the early years of the century), it was carried one step further last week by swart, smiling mustachioed Kaku Mori, leader of the younger faction of the chauvinistic Seiyukai Party. Mr. Mori is not now a Cabinet member. He could and did speak so freely to the Diet that a frightened cable censor hastily mangled the last part of his address while it was being sent...