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...obvious deliberation with which the gambling Post's report of the President's speech had been prepared, became apparent to alert Denverites who compared the Post's account of the President's speech (TIME, May 2) with accounts printed the same afternoon by the Post's rival, the Scripps-Howard News, which is served by the apparently heinous United Press. The News printed two accounts, one from a United Press man and one by the Associated Press, which serves the gambling Post but whose report on the Presidents speech Publisher Bonfils had seen fit to hash, jazz, garble and publish...
...Vagabond who keeps an alert eye on the development of his country and that development's sources in the history of the past, there is a lecture this morning that touches upon some very sensitive spots in our foreign policies and affairs. The subject of the lecture is "American Interests in the Pacific and Far East, 1865-1898," and it will be given by Dr. Baxter in Sever 35 at 10 o'clock...
...President restored U. S. citizenship rights to the famed La Montagne brothers (Rene, William, Morgan, Montaigu), alert Manhattanites, who succeeded their father in the liquor business before Prohibition, supplied champagne to members of the Racquet & Tennis Club after Prohibition, were jailed in 1923 for violating the Volstead...
...woman has ever sat there as a member. It is true that other women have reached the age of 91, but how many of them rise at 6 a. m., manage a 600-acre plantation and write letters to newspapers flaying politicians, bankers? Last week in the Atlanta Constitution, alert Georgians noticed a letter from Mrs. Felton. Said she: "As an old widow, lacking only a little more than eight years of the century mark, I thank you for the editorial...
...quietly on his Androscoggin porch, looking into the blank distance until after many passive days the White Mountains took form in the patients' minds. They would begin to notice the roads, the buildings, the fences, the farm animals. When once more they found themselves aware of the world, alert to their surroundings, Dr. Gehring sent them about their business, cured, happy. No stigma of nervous exhaustion remained.... Today Bethel is as calm and placid as Dr. Gehring found it 32 years ago when he went there to quiet his nerves. One of Dr. Gehring's neighbors at Bethel...