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PEACE WITH HONOUR-A. A. Milne- Button ($2). A whimsical, sentimental author comes out strong for disarmament...
...Schrader stockholders. Since the bonds were outstanding when the Securities Act was passed, they did not have to be registered. Founded in the second year of President Jefferson's first term (1801-05), Scovill is the epitome of all good things Yankee. It was started as a brass-button factory. Scovill buttons and Scovill notions were the best stock-in-trade of every 19th Century peddler from Bangor to the Yazoo Delta. Scovill made plates for daguerreotypes. Scovill made the Queen Anne burners for the lamps Rockefeller filled with kerosene. Scovill made time fuses, bullet jackets, shell cases...
...about $31,000,000. Lever's properties are so far flung that at the annual meeting last April the chairman had a map of the world on the wall behind him with Lever plants ?and plantations?picked out with tiny colored electric bulbs. When the chairman pushed one button, green lights showed the extent of Lever interests at the death of Lord Leverhulme. Red lights revealed subsequent additions. Finally all were flashed, showing 36 bulbs in Britain & Ireland, 21 on Continental Europe, 18 in Africa, eight in North America, two in South America, one at an Antarctic whaling station...
...launching. On the ways rested what will eventually be the biggest ship ever built in Britain, a 34,000-ton half-finished hull known until last week only as No. 534. (TIME, Oct. 1). Standing in puddles in the pouring rain, a vast crowd saw Queen Mary press a button that started the hull down the ways. At the same moment Her Majesty smashed a bottle of Australian Burgundy against No. 534 and cried: "I am happy to name this ship the Queen Mary, and wish good luck to her and all who sail...
...reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he gave to Lillian Russell, who kept it in a plush case when she was not riding it. From the cover of his eyeglass case came the three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond Jim" Brady, Jeweler Parker Morell estimates that at the time of Mr. Brady's death, War had brought his collection's gross appraised value down to $507,445.10, adds: "Today, Diamond Jim's jewels are being worn...