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Cornelia Storrs Adair of Richmond, Va., first classroom teacher ever to be elected president of N. E. A., made backward delegates feel at home, bustled up to greet Harvard's Lowell, attended teas, smiled maternally for petulant photographers, said little for publication, was awarded an especially created degree, G...
France-German Treaty. The commercial accord signed recently with Germany (TIME, Aug. 29) was an- other fly in U. S. Parisians' ointment. In it Germany was accorded most-favored national treatment in regard to all but specified products, which means that she enjoys the minimum tariff rates accorded to countries...
Six hundred U. S. citizens of Polish blood arrived in Warsaw last week and were received in audience by the "National Hero" and "Dictator" Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Towering and eccentric, the Marshal showed to his visitors a most amiable side of his often petulant and arbitrary character. Perhaps he was...
In Rochester, N. Y., one Frank Link, 46, one George Summers, 27, and friends sat playing cards. "Ho ho," smirked Mr. Summers. Mr. Link, having made a misplay, scowled. "Ha ha," cried Mr. Summers. Mr. Link had made another stupid error. "Heh heh," cackled Mr. Summers after another of Mr...
Guglielmo Marconi, Irish-Italian wireless inventor, financier, deftly subdued last week's meeting of petulant stockholders in his Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. The meeting took place in the spacious assembly hall of Connaught Rooms, in London's West End. Signor Marconi presided as chairman of the board...