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...marched into the White House, asked the President if he could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected with a beam of starlight which left Arcturus during Chicago's last World's Fair 40 years ago. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico...
...evening's results were 100%. Dr. Abbott formed the First Battalion by a method which should prove useful in other schools. He said that those boys who did not wish to join might leave the auditorium. All remained, signed cards, agreed to pay 50? and receive a button. Then the seniors retired to Dr. Abbott's study and elected the First Battalion's commander, John Irwin of Keokuk, Iowa. In line for Second Battalion, since its Headmaster Howard Bement is on the Junior Division's advisory board, was vigorous Asheville School at Asheville...
...from railroading. Born in San Francisco eight years after the gold rush, initiated in transportation by loading gold on a stage coach of which his father was freight agent. Mr. Storey-six feet tall, broad-shouldered, mustached and amply goateed-was no "high-powered" executive, never had a push button on his desk. When he went to Manhattan directors' meetings, his directors (among them such men as Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel and Charles Steele of J. P. Morgan) did not enter the board room until he led the way, always greeted him with...
...Yowsah," the "old maestro" mumbled to a CRIMSON reporter, as he attempted an unsuccessful clasping of his collar button in the bedroom of his suite at the Statler last Tuesday afternoon. "Yowsah, times have certainly changed. Why, yesterday's leading bankers are doormen today--if they're lucky; and the old saxophone-ish, wailing type of jazz has given way to a new style of popular music...
...NONE AND A HUNDRED THOUSAND -Luigi Pirandello-Button...