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...first trip abroad for this small, grey-haired publisher and editor of the Sumner County (Tenn.) weekly News. This appointment was the only one asked of the President by his good friend and fellow Tennesseean, Secretary of State Hull. Declared Minister Albright: "I'll perhaps do a bit of writing for the paper as the folks in Gallatin and all the countryside sort of know me and would like to know what it seems like abroad...
...workman's clothes looking a bit like Charles Augustus Lindbergh without a shave walked out of Moscow's Kremlin one day last month, across vasty Red Square and stopped at a line of common folk waiting outside a State store. He asked the man at the end of the line, "What are you waiting to buy, Comrade...
...radial engine in commercial use. At 4:22 p. m. a day later he set his plane down on the same field, climbed stiffly out to the cheers of opening day spectators at the Chicago Daily News-sponsored International Air Races. ''I'm not a bit tired," said he, despite the fact that he had just flown 4,500 mi.-from Chicago to Los Angeles to Seattle and back to Chicago-in flying time...
...wholly inadequate for Armour & Co. In the post-War slump when J. Ogden Armour lost his fortune, Armour & Co. took a terrific beating, emerged from reorganization with a debt of $144.000,000. Its funded debt is still $91,000,000. T. G. Lee could do this simple bit of arithmetic: add to $6,000,000 (interest charges), $4,000.000 (guaranteed dividends on the preferred stock of its subsidiary, Armour & Co. of Delaware) and $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 (for deprecia- tion) and the total makes over $17,000,000 that Armour & Co. must earn before it will have...
...have followed his addresses printed in a Seattle paper, for over a year, and have only found the purest Truth contained in them; urging his people, and all people toward a clean, righteous life. The audience there may be a bit noisy sometimes, in their fervor but that is not criminal, and in time will quiet down...