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Left. By Alexander Smith Cochran, sportsman, philanthropist, late president of Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co.; a net estate of $38,977,237. To Thomas Ewing Jr., a nephew, went approximately $20,000,000. Excluded from the will was Ganna Walska McCormick from whom he was divorced in 1922 (she received a $300,000 settlement...
...Frederick, Md., at a sheriff's sale to satisfy a rent judgment against her, Mrs. Thomas Hargrave bid 5? for each lot of her household possessions and her automobile. For her carpet she bid 2?. Neighbors refrained from bidding. The sheriff realized...
...Four postal clerks were called on the carpet and roughly rebuked for cancelling stamps in such a way as to smudge the face of His Majesty King Carol...
...residence of Sir Philip and Lady Game reporters were assured that "the Governor gave Mr. Lang every chance before demanding his resignation." Sir Philip, his secretaries said, had begun by calling State Premier Lang on the carpet for resisting the efforts of Federal Premier Lyons to collect taxes in the defaulting state of New South Wales (TIME, April 18 et seq.). Since the Federal Treasury has made good the State's defaults, and since the Federal Parliament has authorized tax seizures, Sir Philip protested the circulation by Premier Lang of a letter ordering officials of New South Wales to obstruct...
...evening sun has just rolled down a shoulder of the mountain leaving a great blue heron hanging alone in the sky. He surveys with evident satisfaction the long line of foothills that stretch away like ramparts across the horizon. A carpet of soft green swings down the valley and lies along the plains beyond. In the pasture across the road a solitary hedgehog is pottering about some forgotten business before he sets out on the long waddle home. And in the air there is that strange silence that brings only happy sounds; the voice of the brook...