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When the grumbling and spatting climaxed, who should be appointed Minister of Commerce but that suave barrister M. Maurice Bokanowski. He knows the nimbleness of U. S. telephone girls from personal experience. He gets things done in Herbert Hoover fashion (TIME, March 19). Furthermore funds wherewith to buy new telephone equipment were now becoming available through the sound but dazzling financial wizardry of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, the savior of the franc (TIME...
...young assistant treasurer of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. at Wilmington, Del., in April became engaged to Margaret Wilson Lewis at San Antonio, Texas. Separating them are 1,600 air miles. So last week Mr. du Pont had delivered to him a $12,000 Bellanca plane, wherewith to fly to his sweetheart each weekend...
After that he poureth water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe (them) with the towel wherewith he was girded...
...nearly complete. The skyship, equipped to carry 100 passengers in cabins, is expected to make only a few trips to the U. S. and will then go into service between England and Egypt. But Commander Burney purposed, last week, to raise capital in the U. S. wherewith to build a fleet of trans-Atlantic dirigibles which would carry passengers between London and New York in 48 hours or less for a $500 fare...
...million famine stricken Chinese is no small number, even when compared to China's estimated population: 319,000,000. Last week Occidental charities appealed for funds wherewith to appease 10,000,000 stomachs in western Shantung and southern Chihli, where the crops have failed. Utter despair looms from the fact that rapacious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, odious despot of Shantung, has already seized and will continue to seize for his troops a lion's share of all food despatched to those starving...