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...Paulina Longworth, aged eight weeks, drove to the White House with Mrs. Medill McCormick, who called on Mrs. Coolidge. She cooed when Secretary Sanders came out to greet...
...inauguration exercises took place in the amphitheatre to which the Earl and Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner, drove from Government House. The central tribune contained many notables. Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt, was there. He had been specially invited, as it was he who led the "ninth" or last crusade that delivered the Holy Land from its centuries-old Turkish domination. Others were: Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization; Grand Rabbis Dr. Hertz of Britain, Dr. Levy of France, Dr. Abraham Kuk, head of the Ashkenazic sect, Dr. Jacob Mead, head...
...MacDonald Smith, professional of Great Neck, L. I., defeated Walter Hagen (U. S. National Open Champion, 1914, 1919; British Open Champion, 1922, 1924) for the North and South Champion- ship. His score for the 72 holes was 28−7 under par. At Colorado Springs, one James Gullane drove a golf ball 470 yards, claimed a world's record...
...evidence. As far as the public has yet learned, Mr. Wheeler's connection with the land-grabbing is so tenuous as to be invisible to the naked eye. But then, full facts are not usually made public before the trial-in this case, two trials. Senator Wheeler, who drove Harry M. Daugherty from office, claims these conspiracy charges are "reprisals...
Despatches ask us to believe: A Dortmund drayman lost an action in a law court. He was very angry, named his two donkeys after his two lawyers, painted their names on the animals' blinders, drove through the streets of Dortmund. The sensitive lawyers sued for defamation of character. The drayman swore that he meant no harm. The Judge asked: "If you had a third donkey, what would you name him?" The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth." Thirty days in jail was the Judge's kick...