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...able Newark News ferreted out a Washington report that Mayor Hague had settled his fiscal quarrel with the Treasury by payment of $60,000. It was further gathered that the payment had been made not by Mayor Hague himself but by Theodore M. Brandle, Jersey City's building tsar. Because tax matters are secret by law, Treasury officials could not and Mayor Hague would not confirm the settlement...
...London Graphic editors, turned up with an intimate photo of Queen Victoria at breakfast with two princesses. When the good queen died, Bert photographed, solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too, got along well with royalty. Armed with a special permit from the Tsar he penetrated the secrecies of Peter and Paul fortress and-unheard of!-photographed the tombs of the Tsar's imperial ancestors. Thereafter an array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head of the Russian Orthodox church) could hardly wait to sit for Brother Elmer. Elmer repeated...
Anastasia Tchaikovsky, protégée of various Eastern socialites who say she is Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, was reported about to be deported from the U. S., could nowhere be found. But Assistant Secretary of Labor William Walter Husband announced: "We could not deport her to Russia because we have no diplomatic relations with that country. There is no other country to which we could lawfully send...
...Persian art as was Louis XIV to French. A border string of clear gold cartouches separates the ruby field from the main border. Vines rise in colliding spirals of great blossoms, leaves, tendrils. Wild animals fight. Shah Abbas the Great presented it to Russia about 1600, Tsar Peter the Great to Habsburg Leopold...
Although keenly interested in minor league night games, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, tsar of baseball, realizes that major-league owners are facing a different problem. President Lee Keyser had pitched his floodlights around his field because he could not get large crowds to go to games in the daytime. Some critics believe that while businessmen in minor-league towns cannot leave their work in the afternoon, businessmen in big cities, who can leave, go to ball games even when they ought not to, principally for the fun of being irresponsible...