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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revealed last week by L'Illustration, famed Parisian review, was a hitherto suppressed and most significant fact: on New Year's Day, 1915, His Royal & Imperial Highness, Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany and of Prussia, sent a German captain and buglers, bearing a flag of truce, across "no man's land" to the headquarters of French General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail...
...affiliation between the Bank of the Manhattan Co. and International Acceptance is particularly important in the field of international banking. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. has hitherto confined itself chiefly to New York City, where it has built up some 50 branches. International Acceptance, on the other hand, with its Warburg German connections, has specialized in international enterprises. The combination in effect puts the combined resources of the two banks into the international field...
...reapportion the seats on the basis of the 1930 census, when taken. Estimates are that California would benefit most, gaining six seats. Next would be Michigan, gaining four seats; then Ohio, 3; New Jersey & Texas, 2; Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma & Washington, 1 seat each. Hitherto the States which are threatened with losing seats have been an organized bloc opposing Reapportionment. Now the would-be-gainers are organizing. Michigan's McLeod arose last week and announced that a bloc of 100 votes had been formed "to take any measure necessary" to pass the Fenn bill promptly. "We hope...
...convincing even when he chokes his girl friend (Betty Compson) for contriving the seduction of his son by one of the carnival ladies (Dorothy Mackaill). Out of the sound device comes barker-lingo; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (the barker's son) smiles just like his father; and the hitherto silent voice of Milton Sills has been surpassed, in its recording quality, only by that of Lionel Barrymore. Best shot: bed-time in the circus sleeping...
...winter. He played next day after the Schubert Memorial's concert, in the same hall with the same Philharmonic players and Conductor Willem Mengelberg. He played ambitiously, Brahms' great B flat Concerto-and in a manner so restrained and yet so immensely moving that critics who had hitherto accused him of superficial interpretation and claptrap effect, revamped their verdict. Widely-advertised Horowitz with the European reputation had made big music. He, apparently unconcerned, took his relaxation by spending the rest of the night at the 6-day bicycle race...