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...Manhattan, pasty-faced children are more usually content to cry and squabble over tootsie rolls. Not, however, the' brawny sons of Albert Devormer, famed catcher for the New York Giants. They, Earl, 8, and Oral, 9, are accustomed to gather about them their small and noisy cronies, to snarl about who has "next licks" in the middle of St. Nicholas Avenue. Usually, because they wear their father's prestige as well as his old mitts, their snarls are effective. Last week, when Policeman Harry Gallagher told them to stop playing, their snarls ceased to be effective. Hence Devormer...
Thus, all who played the "Naval Limitations Game" (see above); last week found magnificent scope here for their talents. Many who tried to argue the issue agreed with a statement made by the chief British naval expert, Admiral Earl Jellicoe. Said he, at Geneva, after the Parley had adjourned: "It should never have been held! The result is most unfortunate for. everybody...
Captain Lawry signed on a new cook, one Earl Battice, Mississippi mulatto. With Mr. Battice came Mrs. Battice, wife. Mr. Battice insisted on having her along. The Kingsway, full of fate, started across the torrid Atlantic...
...vivid though extraneous feature of the public session was a description by Admiral Earl Jellicoe of the War-time exploits of the German raider Berlin-exploits which correspondents often described, during the War, only to have their despatches "killed" by Allied censors. Lord Jellicoe admitted, last week, that the Berlin once ducked unperceived through eight battle squadrons of the British Grand fleet and proceeded to lay mines which later sank the potent British battle cruiser Audacious...
...Lawyer Marshall, Mr. Ford had sent two of his agents (Earl J. Davis of Detroit, onetime [1924-25] Assistant Attorney General of the U. S., and one Joseph Palma of Manhattan). They asked Lawyer Marshall how Mr. Ford could most efficaciously erase the Jewish animosity that he had created against himself. Mr. Marshall, speaking for all U. S. Jews, asked for a clearly defined, written recantation of the Dearborn Independent and "International Jew" articles...