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...been unavoidably delayed by the destruction of all the type in a recent fire in the Van Dyke Printing Comany, New Haven publishers, who were at that time handling the publication of the Register. The subsequent handling of this year's edition has been done by a Boston firm...
...Hollweg. He fought in the War, being badly wounded. Following Germany's Revolution, he helped found the Democratic Club in Berlin but did not leave diplomacy for politics. The rise of Germany's new democracy sent him to Rome as first councilor of the Embassy, where his firm amiability in-clined many a Fascist to a friendlier view of German republicanism. Leaving Italy for the U. S., he rose at a banquet given him by his Roman friends to talk about the "understanding" he hoped to promote in Washington. "My house there," he said, "shall always be open...
...small Baptist church whenever the regular pastor was absent. His voice remains mellow & resonant. Unostentatiously he gives much money to church needs, hunts with hounds, rears seven children. Although democratic, Otis & Co. employes hold him in greater awe than they do Charles A. ("Charlie") Otis, head of the firm...
Crowning the diplomacy of Charles Evans Hughes, last week, came an able address in which he displayed the general benevolence of the U. S. toward Latin America in favorable contrast to those occasional, specific U. S. acts which Latins call "imperialistic." Said Mr. Hughes: ". . . It is the firm policy of the United States to respect the territorial integrity of the American republics. We have no policy of aggression. We do not wish their territory. ... If we had cherished an imperialistic purpose we should have remained in Santo Domingo; but we withdrew...
...Grace Mailhouse Burnham, attractive at 37, considered herself capable of being a better-than-average mother. Her husband, a retired distiller associated with the soap firm of B. T. Babbitt in Manhattan, died four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital...