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Italy. The Italian Government relaxed its support of the lira, which promptly sank from 4c, where it has been "pegged" artificially for over a year...
When the curate of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Bridgeport, had administered the sacrament of extreme unction, John T. King, 51, formerly Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, sank overcome by six days' illness with pneumonia and died. His death closed a strange career. In youth he studied Latin and philosophy to become a priest, but instead became a $7-a-week bookkeeper for an undertaker. He became a bond salesman and learned the art of lobbying in the Connecticut legislature, getting his bonds made nontaxable. He became a power in Connecticut politics, a great friend of Boss (Senator...
Phillips Academy, Andover, has shown an interesting series of fluctuation in the number of men entering Harvard. In 1916 the number stood at 33, and in 1925 at 29. In 1917, the number sank as low as 19; in 1921, it rose to 33 again, and on the following year it again sank...
...franc sank to new low records for all time last week. At length it touched 29.82 francs to the dollar. This decline was considered particularly disheartening, since it proceeded from no immediate or striking cause. Statisticians opined that the franc is probably still some distance above the critical point of irretrievable decline. They recalled that the pre-War mark* took two years to fall from 48 to the dollar to 184, one year more to slump to 7,350, six more months to crash to 154,000, and a final five months to become invisible...
...into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round in a circle, her rudder jammed hard over. George Wood caught a rope dragging from her, climbed aboard, cut the spark. Then Baby Gar VII sank under...