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...Morgans (U. S.). Scholars may recall the tablets found on the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates telling of the Egibi firm, financiers B.C. Cosmopolitans will write notes of congratulation to living Rothschilds: Zoologist Lionel Walter, Bankers Anthony Gustay and Lionel Nathan, Soldier James A. (London); Physician-Yachtsman Henri (Paris...
...Paris, when a banquet consisting chiefly of horse, donkey and mule meat was set before three members of the famed Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincar. The three, all by way of being gourmets, *were: Paul Painlev, mathematician, twice Prime Minister (1917; 1925); Minister of Agriculture Henri Queuille; and Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowski...
...semi-finals of the international hardcourt championship. She beat a nervous Dutch girl by the name of Rollin Couquerque who weighed nearly 200 pounds and made twelve double-faults. With Francis T. Hunter for partner Miss Wills played an exhibition match in Paris against Eileen Bennet (England) and Henri Cochet. All four played at top speed, laughed when they missed, congratulated each other, made jokes, and agreed with the umpire. Bennet and Cochet...
Thus either Mr. Meyer, personifying his Standard Oil Co., or Sir Henri, personifying his Royal Dutch-Shell group, is like the dog of the fable, who with a good, juicy bone in his mouth walked onto a plank over a stream. In the water below he saw another dog with another bone, and he wanted the other bone...
...there the parallel ends, for the fabled dog opened his mouth to growl and thereupon dropped his own bone. And, although Sir Henri has been growling, (most indecorously for a British or a Dutch businessman), as if he were the dog on the bridge, he has not loosened his teeth from the Oriental markets. Mr. Meyer, like the dog in the stream, has made no sound in the controversy; nor has he loosened his teeth...