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...Federal Screw Works...
...addition to being the President's social aide and knowing by heart the official precedence list of Washington down to the National Screw Thread Commission, Mr. Robbins is also U. S. Minister to El Salvador. A Harvard graduate, a member of New York's Knickerbocker Club and Washington's Metropolitan, he has had long service as a U. S. career diplomat in Berlin, Paris, Mexico City...
...served on the Roumanian front in the winter of 1916. Primarily a physician, a man of peace, he never strikes the professionally martial note. Once an artillery officer pointed out to him where the Roumanians were supposed to be, lent Dr. Carossa his field-glasses. "Turning a little screw, I suddenly discovered behind a juniper thicket a whole band of Roumanians digging themselves in; my first impulse was to tell the officer, but then I felt discouraged and said nothing." One of his duties was to help censor the men's letters to their families. One private's words, mystic...
Hard-squeezed British taxpayers who already contribute over $65,000,000 a yea to the unemployment dole winced as ' screw threatened to turn again last week. A special committee of the potent Trade Union Congress, meeting in London, blandly manifested to the Labor Government that the dole must be increased by paying the unemployed five shilling per week for their first child, three shillings for each succeeding child, from birth to the age for leaving school. A joker in the bill was the fact that illegitimate as well as legitimate children would draw the allowance. Agonized Liberal and Conservative...
...scheme, Dardelet Threadlock Co. has potent backers. On its directorate among other tycoons are Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Postal and Frank L. Polk of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. The company operates by giving licenses for the manufacture and distribution of its product. Bethlehem Steel and Federal Screw Works are among the manufacturing licensees...