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...first man from the Dominions to hold the office. Another important matter planned for the 1931 meeting was the proper celebration of Michael Faraday's discovery of the principle underlying the electric generator. As every scientist at Bristol knew, 99 years ago Faraday hitched together a contraption of copper, wire, calico and twine, and generated electricity. There were also 300 speeches to be delivered, discussed. Some important observations...
Republicans in Washington squirmed painfully last week when Robert Johns Bulkley, Democratic Senatorial nominee in Ohio, arrived in the capital with a souvenir of the G. O. P.'s 1928 campaign. It was a copper coin marked: "The Hoover Lucky Pocket Piece-Good for four years of prosperity." Declared Nominee Bulkley: "I'm here to get this thing redeemed, but it doesn't seem to have much of any value and payment has been refused...
...since 1919, off and on since 1908, Augusto Bernardino Leguia has ruled Peru. In that time he has raised Peru to a position in South American affairs only second to the potent ABC powers, Argentina, Brazil, Chile. A network of railways, fine roads have been built. The oil and copper industries have been developed. Peru (not all his compatriots regard this as a blessing) has been opened up for foreign capital. With the aid of U. S. diplomats the 46-year-old Tacna-Arica boundary dispute with Chile has been settled. The disadvantages of the Leguia regime are the disadvantages...
...years an author, a barrister and an educator have run a close race for Longest Paragraph in Who's Who. In 1928 Barrister Samuel Untermyer with his train of legal cases (viz., "successfully carried through the merger of the Utah Copper Co., with the Boston Consolidated and the Nev. Con. Cos., representing a market value of $100,000,000, for which was paid a lawyer's fee of $750,000;") held a narrow lead with 99 lines. Two thin lines behind, bolstered by 29 academic degrees and memberships in 86 associations, boards, clubs, colleges, congresses, leagues, societies, orders, ran Educator...
...last week, looking for kopecks. Bank officials conferred with mint officials, they agreed that too much Russian small change was disappearing from circulation. Despite all the rigor of Soviet laws designed to keep money in circulation, Russian citizens were up to their old trick of hoarding money, bronze and copper coins in particular...