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...that the chief White executives will be retained. First among these is Ashton G. Bean who succeeded Mr. Woodruff as president two years ago. He is a forceful, hard-headed executive who has made automobile accessories, automatic telephones, phonograph motors and is still president of Bishop & Babcock, makers of soda-fountain parts. White's chief engineer is Vice President Harold D. Church who was with Packard for twelve years, later with Chevrolet. Secretary of the company is Theodore R. Dahl, statistician and speechmaker, able in combating railroad and tax propaganda for National Automobile Chamber of Commerce...
...relish only two things, oysters and sweet puddings, of which he eats as much as his doctors let him. In Edward of Wales farsighted Chummy sees a future King-Emperor even less likely to appreciate his art. The favorite dinner of H. R. H. consists of cold meat & whiskey-soda-a menu sometimes expanded by cabbage or some other vegetable, always boiled. Unlike his fat, great-eating grandfather, and unlike his father, Edward of Wales detests sweets. But both George V and his son prefer whiskey-sodas with their meals to Edward VII's champagne...
...Negro, it would cause no more commotion in the U. S. than shook Germany last week at the news about Col. Düsterberg. Germany's Legion is the Stahlhelm, an organization of 1,000,000 veterans which plays politics frankly, drills on all occasions, was organized by a retired soda-water manufacturer named Franz Seldte and is drilled by a veteran of the Imperial General Staff: Lieut.-Colonel Theodore Düsterberg, "Second in Command of the Stahlhelm...
...oath Mr. McKee automatically succeeded to the $40,000 job of Mayor from his $25.000 position as President of the Board of Aldermen. The first day he arrived at City Hall by subway, worked eight hours in his shirtsleeves, took 35 minutes off for lunch alone at a soda-fountain restaurant. His job was not new to him; he had filled it often and well during the protracted junkets of fun-loving "Jimmy" Walker. A thrifty Scot, he promised to economize, to cut the $631,000,000 city budget to the bone. With the change of mayors, municipal bonds rose...
Acidic Girls, Bicarbonate Boys. Through Dr. Sanders (see above) Dr. F. Unterberger of Koenigsberg sent word that if women drink great quantities of bicarbonate of soda, they will bear only sons. A lactic acid diet produces only girls. Dr. Unterberger verified his theory with 78 daughter-surfeited German women. All but one bore sons. The exception had broken her alkaline régime. Six cows fed lactic acid each produced a female calf...