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...years ago a Seattle salvage company proposed to raise the wreck and recover its treasure, had little difficulty selling $500,000 of stock in the enterprise. It was to be no will-o'-the-wisp chase, but a sober, scientific business undertaking...
...Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into the promotion of the 49-mi. Panama R.R., whose eastern terminus was called Aspinwall,* and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. which linked it to both sides of the continent, was regarded by his associates as a bold speculation for so sober-sided a financier as William Aspinwall. Promoter Aspinwall got his railroad charter from the New York Legislature but there is no record of his visiting Panama during the construction of the line. The California gold rush was a godsend to him, and until the Union Pacific was completed...
...class began to appear. Under the Mayor's auspices, a "citizens' committee" of 500 was organized to check famine and disorder. The newspapers, frightened by bomb threats, took an unequivocal stand. "The radicals," editorialized the Chronicle, "have seized control by intimidation. What they want is revolution. . . . Are the sane, sober workingmen of San Francisco to permit these Communists to use them for their purpose of wreckage, a wreckage bound to carry the union down with...
...East and unless international rivalries are pursued to the point of national suicide that trade must not be discouraged. The poor people of both England and Australia do not wel come a policy compelling them to buy in a dearer market." In Tokyo last week arrived sober, youthful-looking John Grieg Latham, Australian Minister for External Affairs. He was dined & wined, received by the Emperor in audience and taken in state to inspect two cotton mills. To interviewers he announced : 'I am willing to hear any proposals on matters of trade and transmit them to the Commonwealth Government." Japanese...
...that Koki Hirota was the man who failed in his examinations for the diplomatic service only to become one of Japan's most effective Foreign Ministers. He was born in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu 56 years ago. Kyushu is as solidly conservative as Maine. As a sober little schoolboy Koki Hirota was an ardent member of a super-nationalist secret society known as the Genyosha or Black Sea Society. Its leader, Mitsuru Toyama, now 78, is still politically active, head of the far more formidable Black Dragon Society whose members for the most part are not schoolboys...