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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certain interests in the U. S. objected (through the U. S. Embassy at Tokyo) to the new Japanese 100% levy on foreign "luxury" imports (TIME, July 28). The Japanese Government suavely informed the U. S. Embassy that exception would be made for goods in transit before July 5, if application were made before the forthcoming promulgation (official announcement) of the new law. This answer met the only legitimate objection to the measure, but it is certain that U. S. trade in the Orient, very largely in 'luxuries" such as flivvers, will be hard hit by the measure...
...Hertz has now completed a new $25,000,000 coach merger, whereby the Fifth Ave. Coach Co. of New York is to be merged with the Chicago Motor Coach Co., along with the New York Transportation Co., under the title of the Omnibus Co. of America. The Interborough Rapid Transit Co., which formerly owned 51% of Fifth Ave. Coach, sold out to the new combine...
Speaking at Barcelona, where he inspected a new palace that has been built for Alfonso and his consort, Primo said that business conditions were "not very good but not very bad"; that transit over road and railroad is now safe, because of the vast military forces which patrol them; that the country is under military law only until he (Primo) has finished administering his political purge; that the majority of Spaniards favor the monarchy and hold no republican predilections; that a military expedition is to end Spanish troubles in Morocco during next month ?a story similar to many others...
...this is to be true, all that will remain of Boston in another fifty years will be a scattered, sleepy, ivy-covered New England town, whose emblem, one imagines, will bear the pathetic words "Sic Transit", and whose old men will have nothing to do but gather on the steps of the hotel in the evening and converse with one another of the city's departed greatness...
...transit gloria mundi. But there remains about the office of Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church something compelling, romantic, holy...