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That the late, woman-worshiped Cinemactor Valentino may have died at just the right time???before talking & singing pictures came in?for his memory to remain inviolate in countless lovelorn breasts, was indicated last week when Wanamaker's department store in Manhattan made this unexpected announcement...
...favorable replies from such French satellites as Poland. Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia. Significance. The game of debating the European Union will go on for years, with Aristide Briand as Perpetual Toastmaster. The kudos he will gain as the apostle of Peace may prove of great value when it comes time???next year?to elect a President of France. That shrewd and shaggy B'rer Briand is grooming himself for election as President of France everyone in Paris now knows for sure...
...modern housewrecker with all his pneumatic drills and acetylene torches finds himself hard put to destroy. Even the late Jacob Volk, who called him- self ''the most destructive force in Manhattan," even the Napoleonic Herman Sonken of Kansas City, who has torn down whole towns and railroads in his time???even such experienced destroyers have much respect for vaults, especially vaults of reinforced concrete lined with steel...
...arsenic and arsenical preparations for insect control. Three years ago he heard that U. S. ergot preparations were adulterated. He believed the situation was opportune for him to make money by importing clean Spanish ergot. He bought 70,000 Ib.?virtually a "corner" of the supply at that time???for $1.60 to $1.70 per Ib. The U. S. market price for ergot was then $1.15. He offered manufacturing druggists his ergot at $1.50. None would buy. Although later he sold small quantities he still has practically all his 1927 ergot on his hands...
...balmy Havana last week many clear-skinned Latin ladies and a few from the U. S.j Canada, grew indignant and loud about something which seems nebulous to most people most of the time???Nationality...