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...Manchu but pure Chinese were the golden Chow who ruled China for 866 years (1122-256 B. C), longest-lived of all China's dynasties. Under Chow emperors Chinese savants were instrumental in discovering the compass. Under them, too, was established the first "league of nations," a League of States to prevent War, in 515 B.C. "How courteous and elegant are all its way" wrote Confucius. "I am for the House of Chow...
...Longest row of boxes was occupied by short-legged, lop-eared cocker spaniels, which topped this year's entry list with 161. Excellent gun dogs, they are steadily becoming more popular as pets. With all six finalists in the ring upstairs foreign-bred, a cocker named The Great My Own was last week named best U.S.-bred dog in the show. Not since 1922 has a U.S.-bred dog won best-in-show at Westminster...
...many games were played in the longest set in tennis history...
...ties would have carried their line another 826 mi. to the Colorado border. The 1,876 mi. of trackage that went out of commission in 1933 set an all-time record. Until 1917 the annual total of railroad abandoned was so small that no one bothered to keep records. Longest section abandoned last year was 72 mi. of the Southern Pacific between Cochise and Commonwealth, Ariz. Both passenger and freight traffic had nearly vanished with no hint of revival. Second largest was an entire railroad-the 56-mi. San Joaquin & Eastern running from El Prado to Cascade, Calif. Built...
Facing his stockholders and reading his annual report. Banker Aldrich came to what was probably the longest and most uninspired sentence of all the long and uninspired sentences read by bank officers to their stockholders last week: "The board of directors has appointed a special committee of directors to consider such matters as may have been disclosed or touched upon at the recent hearings with reference to the bank and its affairs before the subcommittee of the Committee on Banking & Currency of the United States Senate, with authority to select, employ and consult with special counsel concerning such of these...