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Judge. In Delaware are incorporated many of the monster corporations of the country and to the Federal court in that State they carry most of their disputes. John Percy Nields probably tries more patent cases than any other judge in the land. In one sense the Weirton suit was a patent case in which Judge Nields was to decide whether company or A. F. of L. unions were to have precedence in Industry...
...World. He seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor-Vat in French Indo-China. The Mayas of what are now Guatemala, British Honduras and Yucatan, he says, could never have evolved the controversial earth-monster of Quirigua from native American animals; therefore this monster must be the makara, a legendary beast, part crocodile, part elephant, evolved by sculptors in Asiatic India...
...Berengaria. Aide-de-camp to George V, who knighted him at a special investiture last year. Sir Edgar was particularly proud last week because as Britain's No. 1 sailor he is now certain to command her No. 1 ship, Queen Mary, when that 73,000-ton monster goes in service next year...
...rosa expenditures by France and Germany, if each be found to have spent as much as the other charged, would pay a good part of Europe's War Debt. Neutral guessers figured the monster slush-funds around $50,000,000. Thus each ballot cost perhaps...
...monster collective farm near Saratov peasants decided to do something about the assassination of Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.). Slapping together improvised scenery to represent Leningrad Communist Party Headquarters, where the crime was committed, they re-enacted it before a fascinated audience which came from miles around. As in real life, Comrade Kirov was shot by another Comrade, both men correctly represented as Communists in good standing...