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Charles Michael Schwab (chairman of the board of Bethlehem Steel Corp.) arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania, having completed his 77th crossing of the Atlantic. After the usual "I am always an optimist in regard to American business," he said that he wears button shoes because he can get somebody to button them for him; that he always patronizes the same tailor because that tailor wears exactly his size clothing. Mr. Schwab will return to England in April to receive the Bessemer medal* from the British Industrial and Steel Institute. Will H. Hays, famed deus ex machina...
...entirely satisfactory." Again probing deeper, Miss Thompson claims to have ascertained that very many small, private concessionaires "are making enormous profits, profits which they could not possibly expect to draw in any European country or America." She adds: "An ideal concession is that of a Danish button company which makes buttons from pressed blood obtained from Russian slaughter houses, and has acquired a fortune in a very short time...
...Coolidge not feeling well enough, after her cold, to go out of doors until three days later. There was a holiday trip to Alexandria, Va., to celebrate Washington's Birthday, and there was a new harbor, at Hollywood, Fla., to be blasted open by the touch of a button. Eclipsing all these there was Flood Control, around which the Coolidge week revolved...
Smack! With childish fervor, His Majesty bestowed a kiss of welcome. He now waited for it to be returned. He continued to wait. Prince Peter, bonny and button-round eyed, gazed vaguely around, oblivious of what was required, but beginning to be slightly concerned about his mother...
Next to his neck A. F. Sims of Wichita, Kans., wore the same gold collar button for 33 years. Last week he died, after willing the button to his father...