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...Edison at his home in West Orange, N. J. was the recipient of the Rotary International Service Medal "in appreciation of a life of service to science, the arts, and humanity." While newsmen, photographers, waited after the ceremony he told a story: a man who suffered from a liver complaint went to Los Angeles for cure, recovered, started a sanitarium of his own. "Eighteen years afterward, the man died," declared Inventor Edison, "but before they could bury him his liver had got so strong they had to kill it with a club...
...that the commissioners have greater latitude in arriving at differences in costs of production as a basis for adjusting rates. If a foreign country believes that any of our tariffs are unduly high ... it can present its case to the reorganized Tariff Commission which . . . has the power, if the complaint is justified, to rectify the rates...
Percentages of workers idle are given by the I. L. 0. as: Germany 23.5%, Denmark 19%, Norway 18%, the U. S. 16%, Sweden 16%, England-where there is most complaint about unemployment-11%, Italy .93%, Russia .84% and France, ''where everybody works...
...receiving sets, were later "licensed" (for a royalty) to 34 receiving set manufacturers, 14 tube manufacturers. Almost immediately, the U. S. Government looked askance at these practices as possible violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Although in 1928, after prolonged investigation, the Federal Trade Commission dismissed a complaint against Radio on this score, the Department of Justice continued to hear protests from "independent" producers...
...some 400 of his works, most of which had been executed before the age of puberty. Excited dilettantes were lauding even the most execrable of the daubs. Revolted, Artist Picasso charged last week that the material had been obtained from his mother in Barcelona under false pretenses, filed a complaint charging fraud against persons unnamed, caused the Galeries Georges Bernheim and the Galeries Zak to be invaded by gendarmes who removed the offensive juvenilia...