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...visit of a British Prime Minister to the U. S. Everyone in London (and many throughout England*) felt the moment keenly. People hovered about Downing Street. What could properly be called the World Press was on tiptoes and the telephone. The U. S. Ambassador, Charles Gates Dawes, arrived (without pipe, for the spotlight was not on him) to say good-bye and make friendly suggestions. Also came (impossible in a less civilized country) the leader of the Opposition, Stanley Baldwin, the ousted Conservative chief saying "good-bye-good luck" to the installed Labor Chief, for the general good it might...
...American Medical Association published in its Journal last week an analysis of the nicotine content of certain specific brands of pipe, cigar and cigaret tobaccos...
Nicotine - Pipe, Cigar & Cigaret Tobaccos. To verify the claims of "denicotinized" tobacco manufacturers the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment made quantitative chemical tests for the actual nicotine content of certain treated and untreated brands. The percentage...
...PIPE TOBACCOS...
...were showing. Suddenly out of the darkness streaked a little U. S. Coast Guard boat. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang -deafeningly five 4-lb. shells were fired, the last from within ten yards of the Shawnee's rail. One shell entered the port side astern, grazed the exhaust pipe and passed out to starboard just above the water line. If the exhaust pipe had been hit the ship would have gone up in flames. Another shot struck the wheelhouse rail. After the volley the Coast Guard boat hailed: "What ship is that...