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...hued pajamas in the Rue de la Paix. He motored innocuously in the Bois de Boulogne. He even "saw sights." Only once could it be discovered that he "dined in conference." Even that was a mere luncheon at the home of M. Rousseau, attended by two U. S. financiers: Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty by able Chargé d'Affaires Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse informed Mr. Mellon that in deference...
Besides Lavoisier, Priestley knew Volta (the Italian electrical pioneer), James Watt, Erasmus Darwin. Benjamin Franklin. He followed his sons to the U. S. in 1794, died at Northumberland...
...Hotel Royal in aristocratic Evianles-Bains three famed U. S. citizens lifted their glasses high last week. What was in the glasses was nobody's business. But what was Secretary Mellon, who had just returned from conferring with Finance Minister Count Volpi of Italy, saying to Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who had just conferred at Antibes, French Riviera, with Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and at Geneva, Switzerland, with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Director of the German Reichsbank? What, moreover, was Agent General of Reparations S. Parker Gilbert saying...
Hollywood Insurrection. Agents of the U. S. Department of Justice, puttering dutifully about lurid Hollywood, Calif., discovered recently an armored truck in the garage of one Herbert Sandburn. Questioned, Mr. Sandburn volubly explained that a Mexican, Senor Benjamin Roqe, had commissioned him to equip four heavy trucks with armor plate-each truck to mount two one-pound cannon and four machine guns. Only one truck had been completed. Dissimulating their suspicions, assuring Mr. Sandburn that they believed him when he said the trucks were to be used for pay roll transport, the agents of the Department of Justice began...
...makers to improve the design of their slop-jars. The meeting progressed to a climax in which Lord Balfour thanked Edward of Wales for presiding. Pompously the session adjourned into a procession through the city. Behind, at the old Sheldonian, a leering-visaged ghost lurked, perhaps, the ghost of Benjamin Disraeli, near-supplanter of "Dear Albert" in Victoria's affections. Three years after Albert's death (1861), the Great Jew delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, a pre-"Fundamentalist" speech* on evolution, so scintillant and persuasive that parts of it will still bear quoting: "What is the question...