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...Santa Barbara arrived William G. McAdoo from Los Angeles and moved into a new house that he had just finished. His arrival had been delayed because his new but incompleted home had been shaken up a bit in a recent earthquake...
...have been quite natural for Mr. Churchill to be annoyed, but, as the publishers pointed out, it was a bit late to call for the suppression of a book which has had a wide circulation and which was printed in England two years...
Many have wondered in recent months whether the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, in absorbing Lackawanna Steel and Midvale Steel and Ordinance, "bit off more than it can chew." Earnings of the greater Bethlehem have not been impressive, and evidences of an extreme policy of economy have abounded. The most recent instance has been the retirement of three high-salaried Bethlehem executives-Archibald Johnson and H. S. Snyder, Vice Presidents, and W. E. Tobias, General Manager of Purchases. All three men have been with the company for years, and will be retained "in an advisory and consulting capacity." Several of them became...
...they stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He opened it, turned pale, then bit his lip and shoved the missive into his pocket. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read : MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE. McAuliffe, who did not need, as a matter of fact, the efforts...
...residence of a local military official went the crowd. The official was asked to come outside, kowtow, pray. He declined, alleging that the time and place were inappropriate; asked the crowd to go to a temple where he promised to do his bit...