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...jagged coast of Maine toward Eastport, Franklin Roosevelt last week piloted his 45-ft. Amberjack II on the sportiest, saltiest vacation the country had ever watched its President take. He dressed in old flannel trousers and a grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even the crustiest old Down Easterners had to admit that he was a crackerjack seaman under full sail...
...House of Morgan. But he could view with alarm the presence in public office of Morgan favorites. When Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot found State Supreme Court Justices William I. Schaffer and John W. Kephart on the Morgan list, he first demanded their resignations to save the bother of impeachments. In Massachusetts onetime Governor Fuller announced he would run against Lieutenant Governor Bacon for the Governorship because Mr. Bacon was a Morgan insider...
...economized and economized until he thought his heart would break and still his city was constantly leaping from one weekly default crisis to the next on its short-term debt to local bankers. So old and familiar were Chicago's financial woes that Mayor Kelly did not bother to go to Washington to repeat them. Upshot of many a windy speech last week was the drafting by Mayor Walmsley of a tearful resolution of the conference's wants. It was adopted with a hopeful whoop. The mayors wanted: 1) the Government to lend them...
...under the faucets, grew weak, could not pull herself out. Four days later Mrs. F. A. Jones, a neighbor, discovered her plight and called the police, but in her excitement gave the wrong address. When she telephoned again the operator said it was a funny story but not to bother her any more. After still a third call, police came to fetch Neighbor Jones for questioning as a suspicious character, but she induced them to visit the entubbed Mrs. Benson. There they met a squad of firemen. They covered Mrs. Benson, fed her, pried her loose...
...telephone, Mr. Welles steered wide on the subject of U. S. intervention. His calmness disarmed Cuba's Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara who suddenly bubbled over that the U. S. had promised to do "everything humanly and superhumanly possible" to keep Machado in power. Mr. Welles did not bother to point out that his no-meddling instructions work two ways: while the U. S. might not overtly help kick Machado out, neither might it do anything to help keep...