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...animals and plants; of the 600,000 odd kinds of insect that compete with man for existence on the earth; expansion of plant studies in South America (for drugs, gums, oils, spices, fibres, fruits and dyes)?that, broadly speaking, would be the program of the Smithsonian Institution this year???Austin H. Clark, Washington...
...soldier is General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines, the fighting police commissioner whom Mayor Kendrick found two years ago. He served as police commissioner for a year under leave of absence from the Marines. Then President Coolidge reluctantly extended his leave for another year???saying however that on Dec. 31, 1925, General Butler must return to the Marines. As the given date approached, it appeared that General Butler would leave Philadelphia. Mayor Kendrick announced that General Butler's assistant, George W. Elliott, would head Philadelphia's police. Last week General Butler changed his mind. He suddenly resigned his commission...
...good ones now. But significant is the fact that in the thin receiving-line of operatic debutantes there are three Americans. This is Manager Gatti-Casazza's second answer to the drone of those who protest that the Metropolitan ignores native talent. His first?a remark made last year???was: "Find me an American Caruso, bring me the score of a U. S. Meistersinger...
...official tying material, is to be replaced by white string, because the latter is cheaper; 2) post-office mail bags will henceforth be made of plain gray canvas instead of white canvas with a blue stripe (the saving from this last change will be about $50,000 a year???less than one twenty-third of a cent per capita); 3) the Weather Bureau stopped sending out its daily postcards carrying forecasts?an institution dating from 1881; newspapers are said to have made the cards unnecessary...
...figures were accepted for 1925 because he was believed to have more experience in estimating future world trade conditions. He believed there would be a falling off of trade. This view seems to be substantiated by a gradual falling off of customs' receipts?as compared to the previous year???since Jan. 1 of this year. Results: $83,000,000 decrease from the Director of Customs' estimate...