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...Caillaux was suspected chiefly of attempting to negotiate long term credits backed by the gold reserve of the Bank of France with Messrs. Benjamin Strong and Montague Norman, governors respectively of the Federal Reserve Bank of Manhattan and the Bank of England. Both gentlemen remained quietly at Antibes, French Riviera, throughout the week, informed news gatherers that their health was rapidly improving in that salubrious climate. According to despatches they conferred daily by telephone with M. Cail-laux's agents...
...purvey their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising on one knee to go in search of further injury, stopped the bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil of lightweights, retired from the ring at the top of his hour, the successor to his crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years...
...South Dakota. Last week he lost also in the North Dakota primary. Of all insurgent Republicans none is better pleased than 33-year-old Gerald P. Nye. It was he who beat the President's friend, the President's good friend and one-time campaign manager, Louis Benjamin Hanna, in North Dakota. Mr. Nye, who is already Senator Nye, having been appointed last autumn by the Governor of North Dakota to fill the late Senator Ladd's seat (TIME, Nov. 23), and who is also Editor Nye, of a Non-Partisan League newspaper-was doubly pleased because...
While a ten-year-old boy played on a cornet, they elected a patron saint-Benjamin Franklin-even though the printers and the Saturday Evening Post already have his memory enshrined. Franklin played on the violin and guitar, composed a few conventional songs, and invented a long-obsolete musical instrument, the "armonica."* The musical chambermen found these facts decisive...
...submit," he said, "to having food thrown at my patrons." He left a large estate, including a new restaurant and apartment hotel on Park Ave. and a candy store on Fifth Ave., in the ownership of which there were associated with him "General" T. Coleman du Pont and "Colonel" Benjamin McAlpin, potent financiers...