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...Still longer bridges exist, but they are a series of bridges, swung or arched between piers arranged like stepping stones across a river. Longest bridges of this type are the Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland, the Samara Bridge over the Volga River...
With 57 nations participating (each represented by numerous delegates) there were at one time last week only five delegates present in the Conference hall while ostensibly important work was going on. The longest speech of the Conference thus far was made by Haitian Delegate Constantin Mayard who, in the course of 7,000 words, happily said that in Haiti, "the Hoover good-will policy has been instituted...
...Gibbons. Important papers have their own correspondents. In the Chicago Tribune bureau, Peggy Hull, fortyish. is the only female correspondent accredited by the War Department. She accompanied the Pershing expedition to Mexico in 1916, followed the A. E. F. in France, served in Siberia, is further distinguished by the longest by-line of all the correspondents in Shanghai. The three news services together send from 12,000 to 30,000 words a day at a cost of about $4,000. The flow of their dispatches is divided between RCA radio across the Pacific, and cable via Siberia and London. Either...
...Publicist as well as university president are the titles Dr. Butler gives himself in his Who's Who article, longest of any living U. S. citizen. Publicist he is, not only for Columbia (which has, besides, one of the nation's ablest press agents in James T. Grady) but for everything else in which he believes. Often and ?Dr. Butler's honors other than scholastic include: Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, 1906, Commandeur, 1912, Grand Officier, 1921; Order of Red Eagle (with star) of Prussia, 1910; Grand Commander of the Royal Order of the Redeemer, ist Class (Greece...
...colony of White Russian emigres (many of whom are supplanting Britain's tall, bearded Sikhs as policemen). The city is popularly known as the Paris of the East, boasts an excellent golf course, race track, yacht club, an enormous number of disreputable resorts and the Shanghai Club, with the longest bar in the world. So popular is Shanghai with officials of the Nanking Government as a week-end resort that tourists wishing to travel to Nanking, eight hours away, Sunday night must book sleeper accommodations weeks in advance...