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...Official Greeter Grover Whalen, a decorative member of the old Walker entourage, and little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, Walker's Broadway companion, discreetly left town before his ship reached Quarantine. But the Master Brewers' Association, grateful for Walker's fantastic Beer Parade of 1932. was at the dock 2,000 strong. The Grand Street Boys and other sodalities with nothing to lose by consorting with the ex-Mayor had hired a dozen boats on which to welcome him home. The Press, always charmed by the slick little politician whose neat phrases helped them in making a living...
Harvard Square . . . one subway; one taxi; one dock; one ticket; one bag; one porter; one boat; one cabin. Two dinners -- three dollars; one dance; one moon; one night; one Canal; one occan; headaches. Scrambled eggs -- bad coffee; one skyline; one bag; one porter; one taxi; two beggars . . . Times Square...
...ceremony would have been if held in France, sweeter still was the prospect of publicity in Manhattan where most transatlantic tourist trade originates. From England therefore, the Normandie brought Donor Hales, his capacious wife, the Duke, and sleek Gualtiero Fedrigoni, Italian Line manager in London. Delayed at the dock because he forgot to fill out a custom's declaration, Mr. & Mrs. Hales finally hustled off to the Waldorf-Astoria for the night. On the way, the perky little M. P. espied his Trophy glittering in the Italian Line window. Bubbled he: "Fancy that...
Senators Barkley of Kentucky, Clark of Missouri and Robinson of Arkansas, being fat men, seem fairly jolly most of the time. But the crowd which went down to the dock to bid farewell to the highest ranking U. S. officer ever to visit the Philippines and his fellow-travelers , found the gaunt face of Speaker of the House Byrns one vast crinkly mass of smiles; Representative Bertrand Snell, the dour New Yorker who leads what is left of the House Republicans, seemed positively cheerful. The fact that his mission had its serious diplomatic side, to show the Orient that...
...bobbies who tried to intervene. At Cardiff the captain and crew of an Italian steamer were driven below decks by brawny longshoremen who swarmed aboard and plastered every door and hatchway with posters reading "Down With The Fascists! Hands Off Ethiopia!" Between the strata of middle-class stockbrokers and dock workers a great section of Britons had been more or less aroused last week to one of their characteristic hates. But the ruling class, "the families," remained serene for the time being and, as represented in His Majesty's Government, alert to seize their political opportunity...