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Timoor Tash, Grand Vizier of Persia's Riza Shah Pahlavi, making a "visit of courtesy and friendship" to Soviet Russia, was entertained by his hosts at the trotting races in the Moscow hippodrome. Surrounded by fur-hatted Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier...
Porter names eight lines of business in which Astor engaged; the two most usually connected with his name are Manhattan real estate and the American Fur Company. Astor was one of the first to bank on Manhattan's rapid growth. In 20 years he invested well over $700,000 in Manhattan property. "The funds employed came almost entirely from the profits of Astor's China trade, which, in its turn, had been based principally upon his success as a dealer in furs, and also as a general merchant...
...Hudson's Bay" and the modern institution which has played so important a part in the development of northern and western Canada. For a century and a half after the original charter had been granted in 1670 by Charles II the "Adventurers" were content with a monopoly of the fur trade in the regions touching directly on the Bay. The initiative for further exploration and expansion was lacking. At the close of the 18th Century came the conflict with the newly established "Nor' Westers", which led to the famous Red River dispute of Lord Selkirk's time. For all practical...
Resourceful, Consul Chamberlain pulled the large fur hat which he was wearing because of the bitter cold down over his bruised face and started to get back into his car. His chauffeur, volubly expostulating in Japanese, tried to save the situation. But into the tonneau after Consul Chamberlain piled the Japanese sentries, pulled off his fur hat and savagely beat his face, gashing the skin of his nose and forehead until bone showed white through the red, dripping wounds. When the sentries had done with Consul Chamberlain they departed grinning. Friends of Consul Chamberlain were relieved to learn that after...
...lizards, badgers, foxes and a honking goose named Susie gathered in Madison Square Garden for Manhattan's third annual pet show last week. With them were exhibited aquariums, kennels, portable cages, bird baths, crates, pots, pans, ice cream, candy, bird seed, fish food, animal crackers, perfume, fountain pens, fur coats, dog biscuit and a disposition on the part of metropolitan newshawks to tell tall tales...