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...Cochran settlement amounted to $3,000,000 and Walska went to Havana to sing. Harold McCormick heard her there, appreciated her if the Cubans did not, invited her to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera which he was then backing. Her debut was to be in Zaza but at rehearsal Conductor Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi threw down his baton, threatened to quit the company. McCormick stood up for Walska, demanded that she should be allowed to sing. But in the excitement Walska disappeared. Not once did she ever sing with the Chicago Opera...
...dollar were the substance of the President's money message to Congress: 1) To issue no more gold coins; in future to keep all the monetary gold of the U. S. in the form of bullion [big gold bars] which will be used only in settlement of international trade balances. This step, generally foreseen, caused no surprise. Since gold coin is in little demand except in times of crisis and at such times goes into hoarding, it is worse than useless to the nation as a whole. 2) To have the Treasury take all the gold in the Federal...
...April 28, 1789, two-thirds of the Bounty's crew mutinied and put Captain Bligh and 18 men adrift in a ship's boat, with no firearms and scant provisions, it looked like the end for them. Their problem was to get to the nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away. Prevailing easterly winds made a return to Tahiti impossible. The boat was only 23 feet long, so heavily laden that there was less than nine inches of freeboard amidships. They had to bail almost continually to keep afloat...
Among the troubles which rose up to plague President Wilson's second administration was the nation-wide outbreak of labor disputes in the closing months of the World War. To aid in the settlement of one of these disputes, the strike of the California lumberjacks, Wilson sent to the coast the chairman of his War Labor Policies Board, the thirty-six-year-old, Austrian-born Felix Frankfurter. Arriving in San Francisco before the strike leaders, Frankfurter accepted an invitation to dinner on his first evening in the city, returned to his hotel at eleven o'clock. In the lobby...
...haggering six-weeks trial for conspiring to defraud the Government of $850,000 worth of income taxes, the Treasury last week maintained that Mr. Mitchell might not be a conspirator, but he still owed the Government money. Reportedly, the Treasury turned down an offer of a $100,000 settlement...