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...France, for the U. S., sailing Oct. 16, same time Premier Laval came over. A few club women of this section desire the Romanov's whereabouts explained. We have been reading Grand Duchess Marie's Education of a Princess this summer, and cannot shake off the sensation of being sort o' responsible for her brother's comfortable, uneclipsed safety. That the sparkling Mlle Laval had not spied him on board was readily surmised by accurate accounts of the landing of the Premier and his daughter...
...Governor has to make many a speech. At Ann Arbor, last week. Governor Wilber Marion Brucker of Michigan made a speech. Afterward, a Governor is supposed to shake the hands of as many of his audience as desire it. Stewart H. Redner, University of Michigan law student, was one of those who wished to have Governor Brucker shake his hand. A Governor is supposed to have something pleasant to say to those who want their hands shaken. When Student Redner said: "I killed my grandmother today," Governor Brucker smiled cordially, replied: "I'm very glad to make your acquaintance...
...Everywhere through the West I was greeted by big crowds-from 200 to 1.500 persons at each station. No, I didn't make speeches, just shook hands. At a couple of places they held the train 15 minutes and even at that I couldn't begin to shake hands with everybody. Really, it was amazing...
When the pound sterling went off gold (TIME, Sept. 28), burly, beer-bibbing Viscount Rothermere had a GREAT IDEA. He started no insidious whispering campaign to shake world confidence in the U. S. dollar and force it off gold, for Viscount Rothermere is blatant, blunt. Mornings his GREAT IDEA was shrieked by his Daily Mail (circulation 1,872,418: world's largest). Evenings his Britainwide chain of provincial papers did not hint but yelled that the dollar is unsafe. In Rothermere papers the financial page, the featured news page and the editorial page all carried staccato attacks on the dollar...
Ludington Line might never have come into existence had there not been a shake-up two years ago in Transcontinental Air Transport, which was losing heavily. The shake-up shook out Collins, who was general superintendent, and Vidal of the technical committee. Angry, because they felt that T. A. T. had publicized their discharge as a sort of burnt offering to disgruntled stockholders, Vidal & Collins saw a chance to square accounts. Together they had developed the germ of the plane-per-hour service. If they could start such a line in the East, they might compete with Eastern Air Transport...