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...Amundsen severed all connections with the German nation when, during the war, he returned his honorary membership of German societies. Not until Amundsen has made proper amends for his offensive behavior to Germany, the result of misrepresentations by the anti-German press, will this firm consent to publish any more of his works...
...Havana newspaper El Heraldo which had been attacking the Machado government. The Government had refused to honor a bill for $1,107,966.22 presented by a certain company for installing pavement and a sewage system in the city of Matanzas. Carlos Govea, a member of the contracting firm, is editor of El Heraldo and had been saying what he thought of the government until the Interior department ordered his paper suppressed...
Aware that this change had come over their young friend, also that he was married, a parent, and in the banking business with Perry Adair's father's firm in Atlanta, the good greens-gangsters awaited with eagerness his return to Oakmont. His divots would they gladly pat into place, and the divots of many another, that his defense of his title might be impeded by no fault in their husbandry. The fault in their husbandry. The talk that they heard ran sometimes on other young men, besides the perennial headliners, who might give him unexpectedly stern treatment: stocky Fred...
...Chairman of the Red Cross War Council, where he displayed his financial abilities by raising more than $100,000,000 in one campaign. The world of finance generally agrees that at the time of his death in June, 1922, H. P. Davison was the ablest partner in the Morgan firm...
Deprivation. Deprive a child of dessert or some food of which he is very fond if he does not eat the rest of his meal. Be firm but not cross. If you decide to do a thing, do not change your mind, no matter how much the child teases. (Children soon discover that it is possible to make you change your mind...