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Andy Bahr is a tough, squat, nut-brown little Laplander who is reputed to know more about reindeer than any man in the world. He was past 60 and settled down to running a Seattle apartment house when Carl Joys Lomen, "Alaskan Reindeer King," went to him one day in 1929 with a problem. On the barren rim of the Arctic Ocean in northernmost Canada some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless...
...Lake Forest cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay imported from Scotland the first herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus. A few years before, a white-bearded Scottish landowner named William McCombie had, by a process of delicate selectivity, developed the short-legged, short-necked, squat, hornless, sleek-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas, in Iowa, were adding Anguses to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, and then, at the first (1900) International...
Promptly His Majesty asked Gold-Standardist Henri Jaspar to form a Cabinet. M. Jaspar at once tried to get as Finance Minister Belgium's squat old Copper King and No. 1 banker, M. Emile Francqui, stabilizer of the Belgian franc in 1926. Before the Cabinet slate was announced last week, Brussels proletarians heard that it would contain a director of the Liége National Arms Factory, began murmuring against "The Gun Makers' Cabinet...
Died. Raymond Poincaré, 74, Wartime President and three times Premier of France; after four years of ill health; in Paris. A squat, white-bearded, glacial man with a prodigious memory, he set "liquidation of the War" as his great goal, was responsible for French occupation of the Ruhr, staved off financial panic at home, retired in 1929 after consolidating France's War indebtedness to Britain...
...tell that made his first story one of the best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears to recognize in his present book the lack of drama that colored his last as he admits "In Russia I had witnessed a proletarian revolution...