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Polo. Alfonso XIII, 40, probably the only living sovereign young enough to ride a pirouetting polo pony, played back, one afternoon, for the polo team of the 65th Lancers against the 7th Hussars. With a potent swipe of the royal mallet he split a polo ball both halves of which rolled over the goal line. By that goal the Lancers...
...common stock reached its highest recorded price last week-$144.50 a share. Nor was there an immediate reaction when George Fisher Baker, highly potent director of the corporation said last week: "I do riot take any stock in the rumors that the shares of the Steel Corporation will be split and put on a $4 or $5 basis." Ryan. Governors of an institution the joint resources of which total one billion dollars, the Board of Directors of the National City Bank of New York, last week sat in solemn conclave. The roster of the world's most potent bank...
...Hair Split. The military committee of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission (TIME, May 30 et seq.) decided by a majority vote that "theoretical limitation of armaments" may properly be discussed with reference to: 1) Land, sea; and air effectives. 2) Appropriations for armaments. 3) Legislation affecting the length of voluntary or compulsory military service...
...only party to split. I remember the split over the Boer War . . . They were differences worthy of a great party...
That this was no empty boast was apparent from the action taken by a meeting of 34 Liberal M. P's, a majority of whom indicated by their speeches that they would back Lloyd George against Lord Oxford and Asquith in the event of a formal Liberal split...