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...everything I can to aid the District Attorney in his investigation," said he. " What hurts me more than anything else is that I, John Burke, the former Treasurer of the greatest nation on earth, should have my name connected with a brokerage house which went to the wall and wiped out the money put up with it by many small investors...
...World We Live In, presented a novel drama, The Lana of Many Names, in Prague. The play is " a lively, spectacular review, but filled at the same time with long ethical monologues and lyrical addresses on the subjects of pacifism, imperialism and war." One long act satirizes Wall Street and the modern Stock Exchange...
...Emperor abdicated and the city was divided by a wall. The Emperor and his family remained north of the wall. The southern half was taken by the first President, Yuan Shai-Kai, who had it renovated for his coronation as first of a new dynasty, which never came...
...PASSING SHOW OF 1923?The Shuberts have picked up comedians, scenery, costumes, girls, music and color, patted them all together in a neat ball, and thrown them violently at the back wall of the Winter Garden. The result is a somewhat incoherent and fairly amusing revue. Far more elaborate and quite superior to its predecessors...
Tires? The five-year rumor that Mr. Ford would enter the tire business was revitalized by Wall Street suggestions that he was in the market for cotton mills which could be used to make tires. An offer was made for the Langley Cotton Mill at Langley, S. C., but Mr. Langley said that " so far as he knew," Mr. Ford was not in that picture...