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...special to Washington, "Waiter, I will eat this $1.25 luncheon. . . . This gumbo soup. . . . This chicken à la king. . . . This apple...
Feverish bustle, anxious conjecture filled Buckingham Palace on election day this week. Outside, London wallowed in a yellow pea-soup fog. Below stairs, Royal scullery, parlor and chamber maids made no secret of their voting intentions as they hustled into bonnet and wrap, groped in a body out the fogbound back gate. Two footmen, the Palace womenfolk considered, were the only possible waverers. They had expressed Socialist opinions at the height of a servants' ball last year, but not since. One of these very footmen brought to the Royal study the latest newspapers for which George V repeatedly buzzed...
Physical guidance of voters to polls through England's election soup was the frantic problem of candidates. Ding-donging down the city streets and even country lanes party workers cried, "Follow the bell!" Hastily posted paper arrows on sidewalks pointed pollwards. But fog effects could not be defeated. Voting was the slowest in years...
...Delaware County Orphans Court at Media, Pa. last week was tried the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's suit to collect $31,465,200 inheritance taxes from the estate of the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, founder and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co. The Commonwealth, which appraises the estate at $200,000,000. contends that Dr. Dorrance's real home was his estate Woodcrest, at Radnor, Delaware County, which he acquired in 1925. The doctor's widow, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, his brothers Dr. George Morris and Arthur C. (respectively chairman of the board and president...
...problem of the real exultance of tables, soup spoons, and other material objects has troubled metaphysicians for centuries, but it has scarcely disturbed the ordinary man. In the last week the question of the real existence of war, although undisputed in a general sense, has in a special instance become a subject of concern to the whole world. For unless Japan and China can be brought to admit that they are at war, the Kellogg pact cannot be invoked to force steps toward peace in the Far East...