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...next move clearly up to him, the President arrived back in Washington's Union Station through whose classic colonnades the winds of rumor whistled shrilly. The President was about to address the nation by radio. He was not. The President was going to take advantage of a new "area of compromise." He was not. The President had lost his nerve for pouring out fruitless Government billions, was planning to cut relief needs to the minimum...
...dancers. And he kept his eyes & ears wide open. On the crucial Chinese Eastern Railway he rode impartially in the private cars of Chinese officials, Russian officials, Japanese bankers. When Japan finally turned from scheming to shooting he was ready. Without waiting for instructions he swung through the trouble area, let Secretary Stimson act on first-hand facts instead of garbled press reports...
...Conant's former home on Oxford Street and the former Trident Club on Quincy Street would be unsatisfactory due to the lack of sufficient space for a lunch room and common room. The total area available for a lunch room would be only two hundred square feet larger than that now in use in the P.B.H. and the cost of the necessary remodeling would undoubtedly be far out of proportion to the advantages gained...
...Hemenway Gym offers an available area twice as large as that now in use at the P.B.H. and space for other suggested facilities. The Committee, I believe, is of the opinion that the cost of the necessary repairs here would be considerably smaller than in any other building and the advantages considerably greater...
...that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone, mantled in green moss, frogs sprawling on their shoulders, their fallen heads beside them, pitted and time-scarred." Claude has a theory that somewhere along the ancient Royal Way-now the jungle-covered boundary between Siam and the "unpacified area"-are undiscovered temples with valuable carvings, perhaps treasure...