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...very manner in which President Borno of the Republic of Haiti administered his firm rebuke to Senator King must reassure the forces of security and of prosperity. Nor has the staunch helmsman of our ship of state obscured the issue by expressing an opinion. It has been made clear that such had manners as Senator King displayed are not to be tolerated. Senatorial interference with the noble work that is being done by Secretary Kellog and his marines might lead, if allowed to proceed unchastened, to all manner of trouble. President Coolidge by his stern, courageous shonce, and the Transcript...
...passengers. Berlin is already linked by air to London, Paris, Moscow and the Scandinavian capitals. Next summer the German air net will be flung southward, to Madrid, Vienna and (cooperating with the new Italian Aero Lloyd) to Rome. Herr Hermann Mayenberger, operating expert of the Colon Co., Hispano-Zeppelin firm, announces definitely that in the spring of 1928 Zeppelins now building at Friedrichshafen will be flying on a four-and-one-half-day schedule between Seville and Buenos Aires, a transatlantic run now made by the fastest steamers in 20 days...
...others in the world, will be in operation at the new South African station of the College Observatory within the next two years, it was announced today by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory. The contract for this giant research instrument has just been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh, Pa., that has made many large telescopes, including the 72-inch reflector at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C., the world's second largest...
...head the firm now constitute the smallest partnership of any important Wall Street House, and continue the tradition of a closed group. James Loeb, Solomon Loeb's son, joined the firm in 1888, withdrew in 1901, to give his time to classical literature. He has been having Latin and Greek works translated into English, and has been paying all publication losses. For this activity, Cambridge University gave him its degree as Doctor of Laws (TIME, March, 23, 1925). He has long lived in Munich, Germany...
...brother, Felix M. Warburg, who married Frieda Schiff, has remained a partner since 1897. His forte is the philosophy of money?economics. Otto Hermann Kahn, who became a partner in 1897, after his marriage to Addie Wolff, is the star salesman of the firm, the "front window." Jerome J. Hanauer might be called the mathematical genius. Few minds can match his when it is applied to railroad financing. He?a partner since 1912, and the last to be admitted?is the only one not a son-in-law or a son of earlier partners...