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...Madison Square, N. Y. and on Dec. 1882 covered 623 mi., 1,230 yd. in six days, the longest distance ever covered by a human being in that period of time, whether he be a Flying Finn or a Red Indian. Thus showing that in endurance the good old Anglo-Celtic stock of the Nordic race is second to none...
...decennial meeting, is purely advisory; its resolutions are by no means mandatory; they reflect the opinions of the majority of the bishops. The secrecy of the sessions is to shroud the often bitter arguments among the bishops. 2) The Church of England is not a unanimous body. Its Anglo-Catholic group has developed a serious rift in its doctrinal observations...
Viscount Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth), British news tycoon, & colleagues were elected to the Board of Canadian Power and Paper Corp. to represent the recently absorbed Rothermere company, Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills...
...AMOUR OR THE ART OF LOVE-Paul Geraldy-Button ($1). A realistic Frenchman, Author Géraldy here lectures on what most Anglo-Saxons would call profane love. But he titillates no libidinous itch in this little monograph of precepts. Here is a plenty of theory but no rules of thumb. Many a bewildered Babbitt might profit by one or another of these Gallic apothegms. For example: "I love you" should never sound like a call for help. . . . And don't bother to tell me that you insist on being loved for what you are. You are worth more...
...Nature's aid in recent years, however, has come a deus ex machina: U. S. capital and U. S. industrial methods in the persons of the four potent Brothers Guggenheim. Originally focused on Chile by copper, their gaze wandered in 1924 to nitrates. Their key company, Anglo- Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corp., has bulked larger and larger in the industry. Last fall it clinched its leadership by buying control of Lautaro Nitrate Co. Ltd., biggest producer of Chilean nitrate. Even before that, however, the Guggenheims had started their Oficina Maria Elena Plant working in 1926 with the epochal Guggenheim Process...