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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...This neglect has affected our families and business in the past, as it is a well-known fact that no family of samisen manufacturers lasts more than three generations. At present the largest dealer in Tokyo has been in existence for more than three generations but the head of the family has always been an adopted child...
...Pope needs a good elevator to his private apartment. The present elevator is a simple square platform, dangerous were it not for its slow speed and the attendants who watch it on every floor. †Marshal Pilsudski gave him the Polish order of the White Eagle, and the University of Warsaw made him an honorary doctor-because he doughtily remained in Poland during the Bolshevik Invasion...
...agreement. Just as the conference was drawing to a close, the powerful German delegation left Brussels, announced they could not conform to the schedule given them. Private negotiations will continue, for other nations have agreed to the restriction, contingent upon Germany's eventual consent. But for the present, sugar remains one of the commodities in which overproduction outrides profits...
Practically universal is the present condition of overproduction. Some of the suffering fields have made notable but unsuccessful attempts to save themselves...
...Sportsman A. Henry Higginson, son of the late Tycoon Henry Lee Higginson (founder of Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass., but shares the Mastership of the Cattistock Hunt with Parson Milne. He is at present the only U. S. Master of an English hunt. A fox-hunting enthusiast, he has done much to further the sport in the U. S., where he says it is "certainly on the increase." He is president of the Master of Fox Hounds Association of America...