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...important political situations of the day. It happened that at the time he was there the debating unions were discussing the Ruhr situation and after, when he reached France, he discovered the French attitude toward this subject. It resembles that of a man when's head of an industrial concern and who depends for solvency on a debt owed the concern. England told France to postpone the debt for five years. France said that if it were postponed it could never be again collected, and thus set out to collect it by force or else obtain security...
Bootlegging is a source of great concern to the police. Although the country is not dry, alcoholic beverages are saddled with exceptionally high duty, which acts in some measure as an effective prohibition law. The smugglers buy the spirits in Germany at one crown a liter and sell it to Scandinavian countries at six crowns or more. The perplexed police are biting their nails with anger at the baffling tactics employed by the smart rum-runners...
...people who make it, not the fault of the newspapers." Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle get fun. No sooner had that journal completed a solve-the- mystery-detective-story Prize Contest than it organized a 245-mile endurance motorcycle race, open to all. The largest publishing concern in the world broke all distribution records during 1922. The largest publishing concern is the Government Printing Office, Washington, and it put out more than 55,000,000 bound volumes and pamphlets-an increase of 6,000,000 over 1921. The Louisville Courier-Journal, made famous by the late Henry Watterson...
...invitation of Mr. Pierre Monteux, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 75 members of the University Glee Club will sing the Choral parts of Liszt's "Faust Symphony" at the regular concern of the Symphony Orchestra this afternoon. Arthur Hackett, a Tenor, from the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, will sing the solo parts of the symphony...
Before the Ruhr occupation most of Germany's trade from that great industrial area passed down the Rhine and through Rotterdam. The new situation is viewed by Dutch shipping companies with much concern. The Netherlands Government has, however, received official assurance from both France and Belgium that the interests of Holland will be safeguarded...