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...pushed through in a year was not wholly unreasonable. Of the codes yet to be made only one or two (e. g. ship-building and anthracite) were important. The rest were small and miscellaneous: gold fish, atomizers, window cleaning, suspender trimming, artificial limbs, cemeteries, drive-it-yourself, button holes, traveling salesmen, ironing board pads...
Last week the fingers of La Prensa's acting publisher, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, itched to push the siren button. There was much to celebrate. Not only was it Nueve de Julio, Argentina's Independence Day, but potent old La Prensa was formally inaugurating a new $3,000,000 printing plant, finest in South America. Its holiday edition ran to 725,000 copies- 150,000 more than its previous record...
DEATH ON THE OUTER SHOAL-Anne Fuller & Marcus Allen-Button ($2). The tenure of life is disturbed on an autonomous fishers' isle in New England. The ''Old Man" shoulders his responsibility of suspecting friend and fighting suspicion. The case is ended, and justice administered without benefit of "the Law," just as each of the 27 inhabitants assumes hate and deadly suspicion of his fellows...
...competition for the 1915 Senior Button the Committee has awarded the prize to the design submitted by Kenneth John Conant '15 of Two Rivers. Wis. The winning design is a simple one, displaying the numerals...
...Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid $10,100 for the small, precise squiggle of Georgia's Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, affixed in witness of a farmer's will. In 1927 Bibliophile Rosenbach bid higher than any man had ever before bid on a single piece of Americana, paid $51,000 for a letter by Signer Button Gwinnett. Four years ago Yale University...