Word: tens
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Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania (less picturesque and well known than Marshal Pulsudski) was the first prime minister of his country (1918), and has represented Lithuania at almost every important international conference since. A scholar, a brilliant speaker commanding ten languages, he bases his political strength squarely on a platform of ardent nationalism. That he has been of many nationalities, in the legal sense, is explained by the fact that the district in which he was born has been, during his lifetime, once Russian, once German, several times Lithuanian and is now Polish. By general repute Premier Valdemaras is deemed relatively...
Cleveland spends high praise on its ten-year-old orchestra, on Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff who has been with the orchestra since its birth. Con- ductor Sokoloff evidently does not hold the Cleveland musical public in the same high regard. Often he is vexed by it-for coming late, for coughing, for leaving early. Last week he rebuked it publicly for general lack of interest. A chorus of 30 Glenville High School girls had assisted in a concert, just finished Debussy's Blessed Damosel and taken their applause when Conductor Sokoloff stepped up. Said he: "If this were a baseball...
Joke in Life: Drawing (by famed John Held Jr.) of rooms in a house. In the center hangs the mistletoe. Around the edges, on stairs, behind curtains, on sofas, ten couples, "necking...
Joke in Judge. Drawing of rooms in a house. A girl stands alone under the mistletoe. Around the edges, behind plants, on sofas, ten couples, "necking...
...National Industrial Conference wanted to know the relation of small to big businesses in the U. S. Its investigators found, they reported last week, that concerns engaged in manufacturing, mining and commerce employ on the average ten persons each; manufacturing plants average 44.7 each, wholesale houses 14 to 15, retail establishments five to six. Mail order houses, chain stores and department stores handle only 30% of the national business. However, in 1925, one-third of the manufacturing plants produced nine-tenths of the country's manufactured products and employed nearly nine-tenths of the wage-earners in industry. Significance...