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...obtained this photo from a British pilot (name forgotten) in November 1918 when stationed at the Toul airdrome as a flight commander of the U. S. Pursuit Squadron No. 141 (equipped with type XIII Spads) under command of Princeton's famed "Hobey" Baker...
...Even if the sergeant-at-terms did write the article in question as a defence of the Congress, his statement that "there are not many Senators or Representatives who sell their votes for money . . ." wins undue respect from the office appended to the by line. If the Senate cannot command respect even from its own subordinates, its prestige in the country at large must suffer. And when all this is added to the protracted Bronx cheer which the nation's press has directed at the defenceless lame ducks, there is small wonder that the Senatorial ire is aroused...
...bought 500,000 shares of New York Central-the full 10% of shares outstanding which it could buy without permission from the New York Public Service Commission-and at the report that L. F. Loree's friends had acquired another 500,000 shares. With a 20% command, the 74-year-old fighter was in a fair way to dominate one of the biggest rail systems in the land...
Originally Wilhelm II approved and is said to have financially supported Hitlerism. Last year he turned against it, did not seem to realize last week how ardently it is turning back toward him. Only last fortnight Wilhelm II's fourth son, Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm, was commanded by his father to quit the Fascist Party. Ignoring this command "Auwi." who is a Fascist Deputy in the Prussian Diet, took his seat last week during the uproar about hoisting the Imperial flag, cast his Hohenzollern vote to keep it flying...
Chicago believes there are good things in store for its big home-town enterprise. Chicago knows Sewell Lee Avery, quiet, fine-faced, Morgan-picked president & chairman of Montgomery Ward, who is reported to have worked wonders his first full year in command...