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...Lands, in the strange transactions of three oil companies remotely connected with the Oil Scandals. The ultimate object of reviewing these transactions is to expose the supposed source of the Liberty Bonds which Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair is known to have given Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior who leased Teapot Dome to Sinclair. But the immediate motive, when Inquistor Walsh renewed his inquiries last week, seemed compounded as much of professional pique as of public conscience...
...Delhi. From Bombay, whither sped the Seven Wise Men, plunging 700 miles into the interior, on a special, troop-guarded train? Naturally their objective was New Delhi, the superb Viceregal Capital of British India, on which some $150,000,000 has already been spent, so that the more important of its sumptuous white stone buildings already tower and glisten in the Indian...
...humanities, they are unfortunately a last gesture before the advancing front of commercialism. Just as the great London papers penetrated Wales and threatened its native tongue, so must the efficiency of mass production inevitably break down the barriers of custom and nationality. Protective tariffs imposed merely to support an interior industry are economically unsound; a confusion of dialects clogs the channels of trade and diplomacy. The radio, moving pictures, artistic advertising, all the weapons of modernity, are weapons as well of internationalism. Whether they compensate for the colorfulness of unhygienic custom and inefficient quaintness must remain an academic question...
Beribboned, bedraped, the interior of Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week went drydock. A 62 foot Elco cruiser, biggest boat of the show, rumbled up to the doors and towered at anchor. A 30,000 pound Diesel engine arrived and sat solemnly in one corner. Propellers, pennants, anchors, gyroscopes, all manner of gadgets ranged themselves agreeably on the shelves. The 23rd annual Motor Boat Show was declared open...
...curious. Small motion picture advertising machines explained to all who stood and watched the swift capacities of the various craft in water. A Chrysler marine engine artfully sliced in various vitals, backed with mirrors, turned slowly to show all who cared to gaze the working mysteries of its interior...