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...President Coolidge should pack up a galaxy of green silk pajamas and 36 pairs of spats, go jaunting in the Southland, perform like a clown and be hit on the nose by a lollypop at the New Orleans Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)-he would no doubt be flayed in the press for wantonly neglecting his duty. But an unlimited amount of insouciance is expected and applauded when it is exhibited by Mayor James J. Walker of New York City...
...been recuperating from previous official entertainment at Rome, Paris & Brussels (TIME, Jan. 23, Feb. 6). Last week as Amir Amanullah, ''The Light of the World," emerged again into the limelight he was gravely greeted by the solemn figure of President Hindenburg in tight broadcloth coat and high silk hat. Less formal was an immediately subsequent greeting administered by Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia Otto Braun, who violently shook the Amir's hand. Meanwhile Old Paul von Hindenburg presented a bunch of orchids with ponderous gallantry to Queen Thuraya...
Died. Ethelbert Talbot, 79, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Bethlehem, Pa., and onetime presiding bishop of his church; in his daughter's home at Tuckahoe, N. Y.; after 36 hours' unconsciousness. His street dress was that of the Church of England Bishop-knee breeches, gaiters and a black silk apron...
Rayon (artificial silk*) means ray in French. Last week, Courtaulds, Ltd.† world's largest rayon manufacturers, estimated to control 80% of the world's trade, declared a 100% stock dividend, nominally worth ?12,000,000 and a 25% cash dividend, tax free, for the year...
...roofs, struck its nine slow bells, the sun slanted a bright beam into Throgmorton Street and the official Exchange opened. Here, the bidding corrected the excesses that the curb market had already effected; nonetheless, at the close of business, Courtaulds Shares and, by sympathy, the stocks of other artificial silk firms, had soared to new high levels. There was a huge crowd milling and shouting in the alleys of the City; nothing like it had been seen since the Kaffir boom in the nineties...