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...Hendrik van Loon is not at all displeased at his son's conduct and secondly that son is not Hendrik Willem Jr. In fact a jr. in this family does not exist, my parents being neither of them unoriginal have never been at a loss to find brand new names for their offsprings and my older brother and I have gotten sick of seeing ourselves Hendrik-van-Loon-Jr.'ed so I hope you won't mind my putting this straight. My brother, in America, is Henry Bowditch van Loon and I am Willem Gerard van Loon...
Next day Skipper Gulliver set out from Boston on his travels to exhibit the Constitution in 18 Atlantic ports this summer. Thousands watched in silence as the old frigate was towed away by the mine sweeper Grebe, her brand-new sails tightly furled. Her crew of 60 was too small to handle her under her own canvas (Captain Isaac Hull had 450 men when he beat the Guerrière). Her first port was Portsmouth, N. H. but at Gloucester she had to be towed in because...
...were Negro. Many were young. All were Republican. They had been called together by energetic Robert Hendry Lucas, executive director of the Republican National Committee, for a party "fight talk." They nominally paid their own expenses from every State in the Union to be inculcated with the Hoover brand of Republicanism. As a matter of practical politics, their rally marked the Republican National Committee's first mass gesture toward re-nominating and re-electing the President. The defensive, almost apologetic quality of the G. O. P. campaign next year was foreshadowed in every speech...
...Brooklyn, N. Y.; and James Ramsay Hunt Jr., son of Dr. James Ramsay Hunt who served as War-time neuropsychiatrist with the A. E. F.; at St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, L. I. (tiny socialite church to which Banker John Pierpont Morgan presented last year a brand new carved oak interior...
Unless it be the backstage of the Woodlawn Neighborhood Playhouse an hour before the opening curtain of The TorchBearers, there is no scene of such dithering excitement as the office of a brand new magazine about to be published by amateurs. The A. S. Gilman Printing Co. of Cleveland gyrated last week when a group of smart young people of the town brought forth the first issue of Parade, a "social, semi-humorous and pictorial" weekly...