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...seamy-faced Feisal's heart. One afternoon in Berne, having consulted with his Foreign Minister General Nuri Pasha and his brother Prince Ali on the prospect of the League of Nations investigating the Assyrian deaths, Feisal became seriously ill with a heart attack. The 50-year-old monarch, 37th direct descendant of Mohammed, refrained from eating any dinner, retired early, felt worse. At midnight Death, searching among the cool Alps for a desert chief, found King Feisal in his hotel bedroom...
Chicago's first major trade racket mur der occurred on the warm afternoon of Aug. 3, 1926 when Morris Markowitz, one time Russian pushcart peddler who be came an independent teamster but refused to join a ruthless teamsters' union, was shot down at 37th & Princeton Streets. Since then no less than 274 business rackets have been uncovered, varying from bootblacks, fish dealers and candy jobbers to garagemen, glaziers and electricians...
...Manhattan's garish Hotel Astor last week met the 37th annual convention of the General Assembly of Spiritualists, a U. S. Group which claims 5,000,000 members. (Representatives of 30,000,000- they say*-world Spiritualists meet in international congress every four years.) The avowed purpose of the General Assembly is to keep spurious mediums out of the ranks. Last week it voted to stiffen examinations and raise qualifications. The convention frowned especially upon "yogis, yamas, gamas and other 'amas...
...second team tester, even though the Nittany Lions have been pointing all their noses towards this contest. When the Bruins emerge from their lair to tackle the Elis, who appear to have been in complete hibernation so far, there is no doubt but that fur will fly in the 37th meeting of the two aggregations. Brown sees its first real chance of a victory over Yale since 1926, while the Blue players, on the other hand, realize that it is practically their last opportunity to snap out of the lethargy in which they have hitherto been sunk. A drastic switching...
Founder Franklin Simon, no kin to Simple Simon,* has little doubt that his Greenwich venture will succeed. He well remembers his early success in penetrating a residential district. In 1903 he opened a store at Fifth Avenue & 37th Street, next to a Presbyterian church. First year it lost $40,000, second year $28,000. Third year the net profit was $84,000. Success was chiefly due to women's clothes imported from France. Franklin Simon, son of a cigarmaker, had learned the clothing business from Stern Brothers. On buying trips abroad he had been impressed by French styles. Until...