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...unique delegation arrived in Manhattan last week aboard the Carmania. They were eight British workingmen. One was a patternmaker, one a boilermaker, one a blacksmith, one a toolmaker, one a molder, one an ironworker, one fitter, one a "machine man." They came to the U. S. for four weeks on invitation of the London Daily Mail, one of Lord Rothermere's papers. They are eight actual workers, not labor leaders, sent to examine working conditions, wages and industrial methods in the U. S. The newspaper is paying all their traveling expenses, paying their wives ( who remain at home...
Died. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 72, founder of the Scripps-Howard newspapers; aboard his yacht Ohio, off the coast of Liberia; of apoplexy. (See THE PRESS...
...with the arbitrariness of a Napoleon, without exhibiting the Corsican's personal charm. He is General Theodore Pangalos. He is said habitually to adorn his commands with the oaths of a drill sergeant. Last week he ripped out several terse orders. Promptly 15 Greek officers and politicians were marched aboard a ship and departed into exile. Pangalos barked again and all citizens were ordered to deliver up whatever "military" firearms they possessed, within a month. The official apologia declared that these steps were taken "purely as precautionary measures, yet if an investigation now under way reveals anything of a grave...
Twenty-four hours after the order was issued, 14 Spanish priests were en route to Spain forcibly deported from Vera Cruz aboard the steamship Espagne. Despatches reported that three Irish priests were seized at Mexico City, but that most of those arrested were Spanish. Sister Margaret Semple, a U. S. citizen, principal of the Roman Catholic Visitation Academy for girls at Mexico City, formally complained to Ambassador Sheffield and declared that the Mexican authorities have warned her that she must cease her educational activities or expect to be deported immediately...
Later the new Chairman called upon the Chilean and Peruvian delegates between whom he is to preside. The Peruvians toasted him aboard the Peruvian gunboat, Rimac. The Chileans feted him on shore. For the time being felicitations took the place of strife and even halted the work of the Plebiscite Law Committee...