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...Shiny boots were re-shined, polished buttons re-polished, cleaned rifles re-cleaned last week at Fort Meade, Army post. For there was stationed the First Squadron of the Fourth Cavalry, and from that squadron, announced Major General Harry A. Smith, Commander of the Seventh Corps Army Area, Omaha, was to be chosen the presidential guard which will look after the safety of the President during his summer stay in the Black Hills...
...result at the close of his sermon he will be rushed to the East Boston Airport, where General Brown, commander of the First Corps Area of the Army, will have an airplane at the president's disposal, ready to fly with him to the Hartford Airport, where he will be met by an automobile and then taken to the cathedral. It is believed that he will arrive in plenty of time for the start of the Trinity services...
...flood was, indeed, in its last stages?no grand finale but a slow seeping into the Gulf of Mexico. A comparatively small area in the extreme southern portion of the Atchafalaya River basin?was still experiencing tense moments, but no major levees had "gone out" and even in northern Louisiana the waters were falling...
...Southern Chinese area dominated by three groups of "Chinese Nationalists''† was extended northward last week by the advance of their several armies toward Peking. The reaction of U. S. President Coolidge to this situation was to inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand...
...took from Senator Bingham $1,000 in cash and his $500 motion picture camera. He, often imperious and peremptory in the Senate, was considered lucky last week to get the private car in which he traveled shunted back to Peking, whence he had ventured out to view the battle area...