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...first luncheon-meeting of the Round Table, organized by the National Civic Federation, executives and working men ate side by side in the Roosevelt, new Manhattan hotel. "Eliminate Waste-Minimize Controversy," was the catchword. The speakers: Herbert Hoover; William Green, who succeeded the late Samuel Gompers as President of the American Federation of Labor (TIME, Dec. 29) ; Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Co. (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS) ; D. L. Cease, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Marcus M. Marks, veteran clothing-merchant and labor-arbiter...
...Buffalo, Paavo Nurmi, who recently ate not wisely but too well of veal pie-and was defeated by Willie Ritola-partook of a modest snack, got into his running clothes, once more opposed Ritola in the 5,000-metre race. This time it seemed to be Ritola who was stricken. He fumbled at his side, strapped his belly with a belt handed to him by his manager, finished 120 yards behind Nurmi who was 14 seconds behind the world's record held by Ritola...
...Olds, President of Amherst; Miss Laura Skinner of Manhattan; Mrs. R. M. Hills of Northampton; Mrs. Frank W. Stearns. Mr. Stearns was absent. He had gone to the Union Station to meet John Coolidge, the President's son, who was due on a 7:30 train. The President ate in silence, wondering where the boy was. Before breakfast was finished, Mr. Stearns returned, reported the train an hour late. When John arrived some time later, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge sat with him while he breakfasted...
...just seated and beginning when word was brought to him that several delegations, including the press, wished to see him. He had them brought in and offered to share his oatmeal, ham, eggs, hot rolls and coffee with them, but they declined. He ate leisurely for about an hour, talking to his visitors. Mrs. Dawes came to warn him to be ready to start. "I'll be ready in time," he promised...
...pounds, he sounded back into the black-glimmering, life-bearing abysses where it seemed all truth must be hidden. He searched the shimmering shoals and sea-gardens of all the oceans, as it is a Sturgeon's destiny to do. He knew all the fish, which ate which, and observed how the vast submarine cosmoplasm is also a vast necropolis...