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...assisting Rodman Wanamaker take care of the Widow Harding's affairs. When she died, he went with Mr. Wanamaker to the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Commission (1926). Finally President Coolidge unobtrusively tucked him away into the U. S. Shipping Board, as assistant to James Caldwell Jenkins, vice president of Merchant Fleet Corp. Last week George Christian gladly resigned that place. Samuel Ungerleider, who a month ago resigned from the brokerage firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider to become president of Distillers and Brewers Corp. of America, made a position for him in the sales department of Distillers & Brewers. Distillers & Brewers...
...Voted approval of the Government's new policy of building up the air fleet announced last week by the Marquess of Londonderry in what members of the House of Commons refer to only as "another place" (see above...
...skipper of the Black gauntlet had never won the long race home from China to London, the coveted prize of the China tea fleet, though he had come as near as nothing to it; this voyage he swore he would do it. And he was going strong, with good winds, when one foggy night a steamer rammed him. Only one boatload got away before the Blackganntlet sank. Nearest port was at Fayal in the Azores, 700 miles away; Officer Trewsbury thought they had a fair chance of making it till he discovered how much of their boat's stores...
...enormous "gifts" for peasant relief out of the wealthy families of Japan, shook probably the biggest philanthropic plum in Japanese history out of the Empire's richest family, the stupendous banking, industrial and trading House of Mitsui which in normal times owns or has under charter a trading fleet as large as the entire mercantile marine of France and has been vastly rich since Poet William Shakespeare's time...
Modern police have outgrown most of Lepine's clever mechanical innovations for the effective maintenance of law and order. His fleet bicycle janissaries have been supplanted by the radio car, and his glittering troopers by the prosaic riot squad and tear gas. His technique of piercing with swords the tires of hit and run drivers is, perhaps, no longer practical. But the admirable adroitness which characterized his administration suaviter in modo and fortiter in re, will never become out of date. It is a virtue which the modern constabulary might cultivate with profit...