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...their production 30% or more were to be given an option on as many bales of Government cotton as they would otherwise have grown. The option price would be whatever the Secretary paid for the Farm Board holdings. Presumably cotton prices would mount. Before Jan. 1 the cotton planter would instruct the Secretary to sell his optioned bales in the open market and he would collect as his bounty for crop reduction the difference between the option price and the market price. If the market failed to rise, the planter could let his option lapse without any liability...
...Oenslager, which may be recorded as the best-looking stage drawing room on Broadway. Miss Bankhead's lazy walk, assured head-tossings and general air of supersophistication are interesting: one understands why London "gallery girls" formed Tallulah Bankhead clubs. Her performance is as smooth and exciting as a planter's punch. You will probably not be able to recall what it was that she and clever Fred Keating said that made you chuckle, but you will remember chuckling...
...Havana than about his seat in the Cabinet. Long a widower, he flew to Cuba where he was the guest of Ambassador Guggenheim. At her suburban villa before 30 witnesses he was married to Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, fiftyish, socialite widow of a wealthy Cuban sugar planter. Senator Walsh met his bride in New York two years ago, courted her mostly by mail. One of Mrs. Walsh's two stepdaughters is the wife of the Mayor of Havana. The other is the widow of President Clemente Vasquez Bello of the Cuban Senate (assassinated last autumn). After...
...miles away on the northern tip of the even huger Island of Sumatra, Her Majesty's biggest battleship, the 16-knot De Zeven Provincien, mounting two 11-in. and four 5.9-in. Krupp guns, cast anchor in Oleleh Harbor. Smacking their lips at the prospect of lavish Dutch planter hospitality. Commander Eikenboom and his ranking officers went amiably ashore...
After having frowned upon English universities he finished his education in France and Germany, and then went to Malaya as a rubber planter. There he was defeated by the fever and soon sought new vigor in the Canadian Rockies. Refreshed by his stay in North America, he returned to London where he passed a civil service examination which led to his appointment as his Majesty's vice-consul at Moscow. This was Indeed a minor post in tranquil 1912. Today the author recalls how pleasing Russia was to him with its carefree days when many a morning...