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After seven years of wrangling over the Yangtze Patrol, Washington has made a contract in Shanghai for six modern gunboats to replace the old and feeble units now in use. The first is to be ready in March, the others to follow a month apart. The Elcano will soon be released from duty as a floating fortification at Ichang and scrapped...
...National League. In 1924 his average was .424 the highest ever achieved by a modern-day player. Last season, weakened by boils and injuries, he batted .317. He is said to be "worth" $300,000. He quarreled with Owner Breadon because he asked for a three-year contract...
...almshouses, to practice the application of their beliefs upon the sick and troubled.* For medical schools: courses in professional ethics. Besides the lessons learned from the silent examples of fine doctors, let there be instruction in the inconsistencies of the Hippocratic oath, in the unwritten laws on fees, contract practice, birth control, state medicine, abortion, advertising, competition...
...MacPherson sang in a home talent benefit show to buy bats and balls for a sandlot ball-team on which he played. Singing teachers heard him, advised him to cultivate his voice. He gave a concert in Atlanta. Otto Kahn, visiting there, heard him, gave him a year's contract with the Metropolitan. The King...
...Apple King of America"; in Manhattan, of heart disease. As German immigrant boy, he early encountered one Thomas Kelly as his chief pushcart rival; the two exchanged daily abuse until suddenly Steinhardt said: "Let's cut this out and be partners." A handshake over the pushcart was the only contract, and when Kelly recently died they were still devoted friends...