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...Marjorie Easton Woodhouse Procter Leidy, 30, second wife of Philadelphia Socialite Carter Randolph Leidy (first wife: Josephine ["Fifi"] Widener), divorced wife of Frederic William Procter, Ivory Soap heir; by drowning when her husband's car, to avoid another, plunged through a guard railing, landed upside down in the shallow Bronx River...
After the weak platitudes of the politicians and the shallow optimism of the Press it is refreshing to read a realistic analysis of the present economic situation. The February News Letter of the National City Bank presents just such an analysis. The pamphlet finds no change in the general situation. Shortsighted and ignorant of its own best interests, public opinion has forced the government to maintain an uncompromising stand on questions of international economic relations such as the gold standard, war debts tariffs Uncertain as to the action or inaction of the government in the future, business men have...
...from the lantern. In Dr. Lark-Horovitz's arrangement the screen is a sheet of sensitive photographic film 9 ft. from the lantern light. The lantern light is a vacuum tube projecting a strong beam of x-rays. For slides he used a thin sheet of copper or shallow containers of volatile liquids. The copper slide yielded the most striking results...
...receive their full sovereignty; 3) during the preliminary period Filipino immigrants would be excluded from the U. S.; 4) after the seventh year U. S. tariffs would be gradually stepped up on Philippine exports. The House bill provides independence after eight years' probation. The Senate debate was trivial, shallow, time-killing, few members believing the bill would escape a Presidential veto. Farm lobbyists, eager to put Philippine sugar and vegetable oils outside the U. S. tariff wall, operated from Senator Capper's committee room just off the Senate lobby...
...third. So was the fourth. It has been a long time since prize fight addicts have seen a real fight for their money. Yelping with excitement, the crowd (estimated 50,000) surged down the shallow rim of the bowl, and against the bleats of remonstrating policemen, scrambled into the half empty $11 ringside seats. Schmeling fought timidly through the rest of the round like a man reluctantly chastising a smaller brother...