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...insurance company. The only time that there seemed any chance of collecting was on the day of the Indiana game, October 8, 1921. The clouds had been threatening all day, but the rain held off until exactly five minutes after 4 o'clock, when it came down in a sudden deluge at the rate of about one-twentieth of an inch a minute. The insurance company, however, stuck to the letter of the policy and withheld...
...buried from the White House is a signal honor, seldom conferred even upon those of Cabinet rank. The honor was accorded Mrs. Hubert Work, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, whose sudden death took place in the Capital last week. Funeral services were held in the East Room of the White House. She was buried in Arlington National Cemetery...
...sudden increase in Red energy was said to be by way of celebrating Communist gains in the recent election (TIME, May 12). The Ruhr strike was embarrassing to the German Government, because the industrialists were prevented from making coal shipments to France. It was feared that the French Government would immediately begin to exert pressure. As far as the Ruhr is concerned the French Army can enforce law and order, but Red riots in other parts of Germany were causing serious apprehension...
...Stories of arrests, deaths sudden and otherwise were discounted by one Kurski, Commissioner of Justice. Said he: "The total number of arrests of all classes in the last six weeks does not exceed 100, the majority of whom probably will soon be released. Most prominent among these are seven members of the late Prince Golitzyn's family, who were arrested in Leningrad [Petrograd] for corresponding with the Grand Duke Cyril, one of the claimants to the ! Russian throne...
...unaffected by sudden changes in temperature, can be welded without risk, and may be used for chemical beakers, thermometers, motion picture projection lenses or other apparatuses where glass is subject to intense heat, eliminating much costly breakage...