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...transatlantic cable it has traffic arrangement with Radio Corporation of America (which on the Pacific Coast co- operates with Western Union). Also, it has radio and cable con- nections with South America. The Mackay Companies intends its purchase of Federal Telegraph's radio system as a complement to its transpacific cable. Commented Vice President George V. McLaughlin of the Mackay Companies last week: "Radio would tide the cable company over those periods of interruption in cable transmission which occasionally arise through damage to the cables. The radio would serve to relieve the cables of the deferred and cheaper classes...
...Barton, wrote The Man Nobody Knows and The Book Nobody Knows) wrote in the Red Book for June: "The most interesting fact in the social life of the globe is the permanent division of the human race into two sexes, approximately equal in number, and each necessary to the complement of the other. Sex, either in itself or in some of its many manifestations-the family, the home, education, life-insurance and all the rest-can never be very far from the centre of the stage in anybody's thinking...
...Simple Life, famed book by Charles Wagner, was, in the current catchpenny philosophy, the complement of Theodore Roosevelt's doctrine of "the strenuous life...
...abnormally faithless wife, financial difficulties and his love for Valentine Wannop, a young person of much head and spirit. In Some Do Not (1924) he resisted his need for Valentine as his mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official...
...view to stimulating among the boys an interest in higher education, all-round development, and Christian living. Men are chosen, who have taken interest in some one field studies, religious work, athletics, or some other similar activity. An attempt is made to place on each team men who complement each other in their talents; some make speeches, others play musical instruments, and some devote their time to personal work. The program although in each case adapted to particular circumstances, generally aims to include "Father and Son" banquets, speeches, hikes and informal meetings...