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Germans are executed with axe and chopping block by a brawny man bedight in evening clothes and black gloves. Seemingly Peter Kuerten's neck cannot escape the axe. But the Düsseldorf Court, unwilling to take the smallest chance of the nine death sentences being set aside by pardon or reprieve, wound up by sentencing the prisoner to toil 15 years at hard labor if not executed, deprived him of all his rights as a German citizen, ordered him to pay all the costs of his trial?one of the most expensive in German criminal history...
...Great White Fleet" ships plying the seas, with nearly 3,000,000 acres of unimproved land, Mr. Cutter had reason to wonder what effect the new Hoover policy of non-pro- tection would have throughout Central America. He was less concerned about Nicaragua where United Fruit's holdings are smallest (some 10,000 acres in bananas on the southeast coast near Bluefields), than he was about such countries as Honduras with 95,300 acres in banana cultiva- tion, Guatemala with 21,442 acres, Costa Rica with 27,228 acres in Cacao. Though the United Fruit had exercised its own form...
...architect, an alderman, a man of wealth is clever little Purchaser Bossom. Like Sculptor Epstein he is of Semitic descent. His wealth derived from his conception and industrious execution of the idea of building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress...
...special exhibition was put on for the benefit of the CRIMSON reporter who investigated the bells. With his right hand the ringer plays on cords attached to the four smallest instruments, and at the same time uses his left to man-oeuvre by means of wires all the other bells except the three largest. The 15-ton monster is operated by two men, while the next two in size are also rung by the Russian, using a foot pedal...
...000? $25,000 269,700 $25,000? $50,000 63,404 $50,000? $100,000 23.949 $100,000? $300,000 11,608 $300.000? $500,000 1,622 $500,000?$1,000,000 967 The "Under $5,000" class had the biggest income ($8,282,000,000), paid the smallest share of the total tax (4%). Total income reported by all classes...