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...faith and determination were sufficient to get her through the long, Trans-Siberian Railway trip and to help her track down Mrs. Lawson in Yangcheng in northern China, hundreds of miles from the China coast where she had begun her search. There the two Englishwomen set up an inn for mule drivers. Gladys' first Chinese was a chant: "We have no bugs, we have no fleas. Good, good, good-come, come, come." Her job was to grab the leading mule of a caravan and lead him into the courtyard. After the mules were fed, their drivers became willing listeners...
Died. William D. Mahon, 88, veteran labor leader and oldtime crony of the late Samuel Gompers in organizing the A.F.L., for 53 years (until he retired in 1946) president of what is now the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America; in Detroit...
...only by his Secret Service shadows, he found himself at a formal banquet with 200 of the nation's top industrialists. Seated around him were Gwilym A. Price, president of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., Motion Picture Czar Eric Johnston, Arthur A. Frank, chairman of the board of Standard Railway Equipment Mfg. Co., and dozens of other high-powered and high-placed big businessmen...
...Western Hemisphere's biggest railroad* got a new boss last week. To succeed retiring President Robert C. Vaughan, the government-owned Canadian National Railway Co. picked Donald Gordon, 47, deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, whose only direct connection with railroading had been as a passenger...
Without the sobering sight of Vienna, a tourist attending the Salzburg Festival would tend to overlook the dilemma of Austria, for there he would hear one of the world's finest orchestras, some of the best singers, and see good theater in a city which lost only its railway station in the war. Openly buying at the blackmarket exchange rate, he might not notice that lemons are unobtainable because the legal rate of 10 schillings to the dollar is prohibitive to Italian exporters. He would not realize that Austria is a thoughfare for refugees from Eastern Europe. He would...