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Absinthe capital of the world today is no city of Europe or Asia but New Orleans. Louisianans have been sipping absinthe almost as long as the French who brought it back from their expeditions into North Africa centuries ago. The big New Orleans absinthe firm is L. E. Jung & Wulff Co. In 1926 Mr. Jung died worth some $250.000 and was succeeded by Mr. Wulff as president. Swank Son Frederick August Wulff is treasurer, plays crack polo and is a captain in the 108th Cavalry of Louisiana's National Guard, but the firm's "Grand Old Absinthe Man" is James...
...Pietro de Francisci was mobilized this week to serve with the troops. Minister of Communications Umberto Puppini will command infantry divisions. Minister of Colonies General Emilio de Bono will serve as a field judge. Minister of Education Francesco Ercole will head field telegraph and radio. Minister of Finance Guido Jung has a regiment of artillery. Hardest job goes to Under Secretary of Corporations Alberto Asquini who will be responsible for one of the still untried celeri divisions. Easiest goes to dapper, foppish Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, whose principal job is to serve as Il Duce's messenger...
...last of the conquering Manchus that ruled China since 1644 it was his duty to have at least two wives. He did not want two wives, for he had already picked a beautiful bride from the catalog of a marriage broker. The daughter of a Manchu businessman named Jung Yuang, she had been educated by the Sisters Miriam and Isabel Ingram. Philadelphia missionaries, and preferred to be called Elizabeth. Elizabeth was quite sufficient but on the insistence of his Japanese "protectors" in Tientsin Henry took Wife...
Into the Chamber of Deputies last week marched Eccellenza Jung to rejoice publicly at what seemed to him a belated return by President Roosevelt to that principle of stabilization from which the White House strayed so far during the London Conference...
Cried Eccellenza Jung who was Italy's Chief Delegate: "Ah Signori! those nations which have remained faithful to gold have rendered a precious service to the world. President Roosevelt's latest step [to revalue the dollar between 50 and 60? gold is fresh proof of the wisdom of the Duce...