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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grigorie J. Sokolnikov, newly appointed Soviet Ambassador to Britain, arrived in London fortnight ago, bought a new dress suit in which to present his credentials to King George, and waited. Eight days passed. Conservatives, chuckling at a chance to embarrass the Labor Government, stood up in Parliament and loudly asked why the new Soviet Ambassador had not been received. Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson scowled...
...bought an old what-you-call flivver last fall," reminisces Guillermo. ''For weeks we rode around making much fun. But one day the flivver broke down six miles from Gettysburg and we left it there for a good joke...
...investor." Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, he graduated from McMasters University, Toronto, and, in 1906 arrived in Cleveland with the Baptist ministry as his chosen career. Before ordination, however, he became interested in public utilities, left the ministry in favor of Cleveland street railways. Next he went to Iowa, bought up options on public utilities. One of his Iowa deals was financed by Otis & Co., Cleveland bond house, marked the beginning of Mr. Eaton's connection with Otis & Co. of which he has been a partner since 1915. In 1912 he organized Continental Gas & Electric, one of the earliest...
Long has it been common knowledge that the phonograph and the radio were proving themselves formidable rivals to the piano. Long has American Piano unsuccessfully attempted to fight this rivalry. At the height of phonograph popularity in 1922. they bought the J. & C. Fisher Co. and Amphion Co., manufacturers of player-piano actions. Following acquisition Amphion perfected the Ampico reproducing attachments and although the manufacture of player-pianos has been practically discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their...
...spring of 1931, traveling via the Colville Basin (southeast of Point Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska) where it will spend the fawning season and summer, giving the fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested in the reindeer industry as a new meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr, expert Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare...