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...district flowed waters with remarkable medicinal properties. Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often large and brawny than thin and puny?but experience, reputation and $15,000 in cash prizes. With the single exception...
...Droned through a little perfunctory debate, during which several Peers of the Realm were observed to be reading the just-published memoirs of Viscount D'Ab ernon, who was Britain's first post-War ambassador (1920-26) to Germany. At the Spa Conference in 1920, Viscount D'Abernon wrote in his diary, under date of July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could...
President Coolidge again had opportunity to appear in his favorite role of defender of the U. S. taxpayer. Premier Poincare of France, unveiling a monument in a minor Alpine spa, had referred briefly to the persistent belief of his Government that France's ability to pay her War debts is inevitably conditioned by Germany's payments of reparations to France. President Coolidge, at his first press conference of the week, made the Poincare speech the leading topic and reiterated his Administration's insistence that there can be no connection between what Germany owes France and what France...
Marshal Pilsudski who is now gulping mineral water at a Rumanian spa, "The Baths of Hercules," did not repudiate the suggestion of a Crown. Poland was of truly Imperial dimensions circa 1650 in the great days of Ladislas IV and John Casimir...
Married. Philip Grandin Strong, son of Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; to Emma Thompson Smith, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Livingston Smith of New York and Ballston Spa; at Ballston Spa...