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Mansion Passion. Though Albania may lack roads, she should never lack for royal palaces. Last week Italian workmen and engineers, sent by King Zog's patron and protector, Dictator Mussolini, laid the foundations of a new royal palace, Zog's fifth, outside the grimy old capital city of Tirana. The building will cost more than one million dollars. His passion for mansions still unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King...
...yesterday. No reason could be ascertained from the college authorities for the unusual action of the clock in the past few days; but upon inquiry it was discovered that the unwieldy flight of a vagrant pigeon had disturbed the movement that has been continual for a decade or less. Workmen perched high upon the dangerous scaffold spent several hours in the effort to repair the damage caused by the misdirected ramblings of the winged wanderer...
...predicament arose when Mr. Ford asked the League's International Labor Office to collect statistics on real wages in various European countries. Mr. Ford wanted to pay workmen in his foreign plants the same real wages that he pays his U. S. workmen. So he asked the Labor Office to determine what wages he should pay Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, Germans, so that they should be on equal terms with each other and with U. S. Ford employes...
Hanover, N. H., June 3--Preparations are being made for approximately 200 students at the Northfield Intercollegiate Conference according to the Chairman of the New England Field Council, and executive chairman of the Northfield Conference, R. M. Funkhouser, 1930. Workmen have been active in preparing accommodations for the visiting delegations who will be located in the dormitories occupied throughout the year by the students at the Northfield Seminary...
...weeks ago the subway workmen struck a cellar that had not been filled in. Unimaginative French laborers who crawled in to look about with smoky acetylene torches, quickly crawled back, actively sick with horror. The scientists who took their places last week were delighted...