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...generals hostile to King Carol were placed on the retired list, two who assisted his return (Generals Averescu and Presan) were gazetted field marshals. The King's brother Prince Nicholas, who telegraphed the signal for his return was created "Chief Inspector of the Army and Navy." Said Carol of Nicholas last week: "He is more than a brother! ... He hourly does me splendid service." Nicholas told reporters that during his brother's exile they used an affectionate telegraphic code in which "Mary" stood for Carol. Without translating it Nicholas quoted one code message: "TELL TITKUS KISS FROM SOPHIE...
...crowd around a City Hall table behind which stood Commissioner Whalen, police dignitaries and the Mayor. "Now, now," chided Mr. Walker, "this isn't Wanamaker's bargain counter." Then he announced that Mr. Whalen had resigned, was returning to Wanamaker's. In his place was put Assistant Chief Inspector of Detectives Edward Pierce Mulrooney, 57, a tightlipped, hardboiled police officer, who joined the force in 1896, answering an advertisement by then Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Said the Mayor to Commissioner Mulrooney: "It was your devotion to duty which led you away from spectacle and sensation that prompted...
Resigned. Oren Root, 57, president of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co., owners and operators of the Hudson River tubes (Manhattan-New Jersey subway route), onetime motorman, conductor, inspector on the oldtime metropolitan street railway system of New York. During his eleven-year presidency, Hudson & Manhattan obligations rose in the market: 1st lien 5% bonds, from 57 to 99½; adjusted mortgage income 5% bonds from 16 to 83⅜; preferred and common stocks from almost no sale to 81 and 48⅝respectively. On the preferred stock, a dividend of 2½% semiannually was instituted. Reasons for resignation: "Entirely personal...
Hottest locust battle of the week was that fought on the grand old Egyptian front by thousands of sweating natives directed by a mere handful of cool, efficient Englishmen, commanded by the British Inspector General of the Egyptian Army, famed "Spinks Pasha," Maj. General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks...
...some reason the current melodrama at the Keith-Albee theatre entitled "Framed" fails to click. The plot has all the tapestries and bindings of original research; a little girl, who works in a Broadway Night-Club has a grudge against the police inspector who bears the colorful name of "Butch" McArthur. "Butch" has a son who succumbs to the lure of this revenge-harboring maiden; said maiden therefore has a splendid opportunity to send the revenge out of the harbor; nevertheless, she falls in love with the son and a happy reconciliation, consisting in putting several gangsters "on the spot...