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...Paris celebrated with notable champagne-bibbing the fact that they could get, roughly, 29 francs for a dollar?and a drinkable quart of champagne for the 29 francs. That was the greatest number of francs ever* exchangeable for a dollar in the history of the world. Then the firm of Morgan loaned the French Government $100,000,000; and one could get only some 14 francs for the dollar. Last spring the franc began to slip badly again. Last week the American Express Co., at Paris, was paying out approximately? 28 francs for the dollars which its clients smilingly proffered...
Engaged. Miss Margaret L. Du Pont, second daughter of Irenee Du Pont, President of the famed chemical firm of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.; to one Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, youthful chemical engineer. Because he plays the cello and she the violin, sentimental pressmen declared: "Music drew them together...
...this year by the committee to have the members of the class of 1926 measured by the Harvard Cooperative Society for caps and gowns. The contract for the Class Day costumes has been given to the Cotrell and Leonard Company of Albany, New York, and this is the only firm that will be officially recognized by the committee. The details of ordering and delivering the caps and gowns will be handled for this company by the Cooperative store...
...Court was human. Although five of its members had refused to stay the execution, it considered the appeal in spite of the irregularity. The Court was also firm. The appeal was denied...
Died. Henry Holt, 86, famed founder (1873) of the publishing firm which bears his name, writer of various books dealing with the cosmos and of Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor; at Manhattan, following an attack of bronchitis. On his 80th birthday, Mr. Holt said: "Any young man who drinks whisky is a fool, and any old man who doesn't is another...