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...Hearing that newsgatherers were talking about mosquitoes on the Brule, President Coolidge asked specifically if any newsgatherer had been bitten by any mosquito on the Brule. There are, he let it be known, no mosquitoes on the Brule and whoever says so is a bearer of false report...
...That the Republican Party chooses as its standard-bearer one who is not only not a politician but who has a professed contempt for a politician's calling, is proof of how completely the party accepts the dictum of President Coolidge that "the business of the United States is business...
...Army is strong on soubriquets, and nowhere does the bearer of an historic nickname fare better than at West Point. Henry E. ("Light Horse Harry"*) Wilson, Army football captain last year and Army football crackerjack the past four years, took both the Edgerton Sabre (for being football captain) and the Army Athletic Association Sabre (for being best all round athlete) at last week's West Point ceremonies. It was the first time that a cadet had won both swords. Some people said that the nickname hypnotized the judges. This was most unjust, for Cadet Wilson outstood in baseball...
Having thus clarioned to the nation's colonial conscience, Signer Mussolini pinned a bronze medal on Air Corps Flag Bearer Colonel Mario Stangani. Hugging and kissing the Colonel on both cheeks, Il Duce cried: "I embrace in you the whole Italian Colonial Aviation Service...
...geevs me great, great pleasure to make wis ze great American 'enemy' shake hend," laughed Captain Koehl, waving to the medal-bedecked flag-bearer of the Legion, and sighing with relief as the elevator doors slammed...