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...Premier may be prostrated but scarcely surprised if his own brother is shot down in the street (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925). . . . Most unfortunately, Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff was not able to find the bomb for which he searched, in time. The black iron sphere became a white cloud of gas which pushed out the walls of the Chief's house and drove iron splinters through him. Mercifully he died an almost instantaneous death...
With the lecture on Richard Brinsley Sheridan we leave the literary sphere of dignified New England Victorianism to visit the frivolous, frothy world of eighteenth century fashion...
...important in the day's news. But speaking of modern semi-miracles, I believe you should know of an instance which has transgressed your original pur pose. A busy, practical friend whom I esteem, had long since ceased to satisfy me that he still existed on this mundane sphere. But you induced me to take advantage of the offer to make a gift of TIME. So I sent you the name of my esteemed friend. I had almost forgotten the effect of your persuasiveness, until I received a letter the other day. TIME had resurrected the lost. Allow...
...Commissioner of Education (John James Tigert) asked questions of his statisticians and made a statement about that sphere of U. S. life upon which he was appointed to keep an eye. Figures...
...Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey sold to Vacuum Oil Co. all its equipment and stores in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria. Vacuum Oil at the same time sold all its properties in Poland to Standard Oil of New Jersey. Neither will intrude in the other's sphere of influence, i. e., compete. Both are Standard Oil companies...