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Another of M. Doumergue's decrees will trim salaries on a sliding scale. There will be a 20% cut for President Lebrun, 15% for the Cabinet. 10% for all salaries over 100,000 francs. Even 12,000-francers will lose 5% of their small wage. The Cumul will be abolished, the system whereby one employe holds several posts and draws pay for each, nor can anyone be appointed to a government post in future who already draws a pension. Veterans' pensions will be cut. Politicians waited nervously to see how the public would react to these decrees...
Quietly into North Tarrytown, N. Y.'s trim Phillipse Manor station at 10 a. m. an electric locomotive drew a baggage car and one compartment Pullman named Glencliff. Two detectives cleared the platform of all save ticketholders. At 11 a. m. five automobiles, one resembling an ambulance, rolled up in single file. From four of them stepped 24 servants. They opened up the ambulance and lifted out not 94-year-old John Davison Rockefeller St., as bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs...
...vests of maroon and purple, claret and gold; opera capes of blue vicuna lined with scarlet and purple. The Fashion Committee was in favor of streamlining men's clothes: ". . . a stripe, for example, perpendicular through coat and trousers, but for the waistcoat navigating the torso horizontally. Pockets may trim their flaps back to lay neatly against the wind and there will be no buttons on the cuffs - no outside plumb ing. . . ." But the very latest in fashions was the cocktail suit and the champagne coat. The cocktail suit, worn only between 4:30 and 6 of an afternoon...
...hope that his resignation might not have to stand. Said he, "I shall accept any frankly revolutionary government capable of continuing and improving my work." Few hours later the ballroom squabblers picked as Cuba's new President a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, smart, trim Carlos He via who had been Secretary of Agriculture under President Grau. Whether or not Cubans will accept an "Annapolis President," Senor Hevia's choice caused eyebrows to lift throughout Latin America, created an unfortunate im pression that Mr. Caffery is Cuba's puppeteer. He was said...
...call for a showing of developed standards, and for some ability to relate the pale facts of study to the realities of life. In short, the ideal Graduate School would merely provide a fertile ground for the development of a man's work, and would not box it or trim it, or force it into any prearranged pattern...