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...government, except for patriotic service rendered America's allies in time of war." Last week, Moses Koenigsberg, president of the International News Service, Inc., and other Hearst syndicates, was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor of France at the Manhattan home of Jeweler Pierre Cartier, forthwith resigned all his offices with Mr. Hearst. It is believed his salary had been $75,000 per annum. William Franklin Knox, New England newspaperman, replaced...
...satisfy both countries will inevitably be found. . . ." Unable to attend the official luncheon of welcome, former Ambassador to the U. S. Jules Jusserand sent a message: "Should the President attempt to remove Mr. Herrick from the Paris post, treaties or no, France will declare war on the United States forthwith." Laughter...
...Augustinian canons and their servants on duty there last week watched a train of sleds zigzag its way up the pass from the Swiss side. Snow was deep; wind blistering. None, remarked the canons, but Americans with their quaint inquisitiveness would make such a trip in such weather. Forthwith they sent servants to heat liquids. Other servants they dispatched to assemble the St. Bernard dogs, those great spaniels bred to retrieve humans from the Alpine snows just as Newfoundland dogs, another breed of spaniel, retrieve humans from waters. The canons rarely accompany the dogs on rescues. They are Roman Catholic...
...Greece, a helot trotted down to a river marsh to gather kalamoi, hollow tubular stalks of grass. Each kalamos he whittled to a tapering point and handed with ink to his master, who forthwith wrote out the accounts of his battles and of his business deals...
...Britain paid in U. S. Treasury notes, which were forthwith cancelled, thereby reducing the U. S. debt...