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...electoral votes. A commission of five Representatives, five Senators and five Supreme Court Justices (eight Republicans and seven Democrats) gave the 22 votes to Hayes. Hayes was elected with 185 electoral votes to 184 for Tilden. * Sol. Bloom is generally credited with authorship of the advertising slogan "His Master's Voice...
...Committee of Experts is led by the strong, silent English financier-statesman, Reginald McKenna. Tallyho, sounded the horn, and Reginald, master of the hounds, galloped away with the pack to hunt the wily mark. The hunt is soon to end and it is hoped that chairman McKenna will present the Reparations Commission with a good big brush in the shape of a report on the amount of German capital exported and on the means which can be taken to secure...
Jeremiah Jenks, political economy expert of New York University, recently returned to Germany, reported that Hugo Stinnes, Master of Coke, "is employing two secretaries with a staff of assistants solely to look after his widespread relief work. Stinnes provides the entire upkeep of the municipal kitchens, foundlings' home and a home for nursing mothers in Mühlheim, adjoining his own house, and contributes to a long list of hospitals, institutions, students' and middle-class canteens and scientific research institutions throughout Germany. Large numbers of shamefaced poor, including needy artists, writers and 'disabled officers, owe their existence...
...title indicates, are a history of British foreign policy from Lord Carmarthen to Lord Curzon (1783-1919), or from the time Britain can be said to have had a defined foreign policy up to the end of the Great War. On the period anterior to 1783 Sir Adolphus Ward, Master of Peter-house, Cambridge, has written a long introduction in which he has skilfully outlined the main considerations and salient characteristics of those early days. The work as a whole can, therefore, lay serious claim to being a complete review of the whole of British foreign policy...
...Master of the Papal Household (Mgr. Caccia-Dominione) presents to His Holiness the list of audiences for the next...