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Vice President Charles Curtis journeyed last week to Kansas City, Mo., enunciated further footnotes to the Congressional Campaign. After breakfast next morning he waited in his hotel lobby for a committee of city officials to come to escort him in state to the station. When they failed to arrive as train time approached, the Vice President called a taxi. The hotel doorman, unwilling to see the nation's No. 2 executive depart unhonored, jumped in beside him, escorted him to the Union Station behind five motorcycle police...
...been speeded across the Pacific by the steamer Hikawa Maru, 12 hr. ahead of schedule, had to sail out of New York aboard the Leviathan four days later in order to be laid before the League of Nations' Preparatory Commission on Disarmament at Geneva Nov. 6. Piloting the escort plane, to carry on in case of accident to Lieut. Woodring, was 26-year-old Lieut. William W. Caldwell. Over the Rockies flew the couriers, into a Wyoming blizzard. Lieut. Woodring emerged, after two forced landings. Not until landing in Cleveland next day did he learn that his escort...
...needs of Romans. Two years ago two sons of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prince Sigvard, visited Mr. Eastman in Rochester. A few months later Mr. Eastman instructed Nils Bouveng, Eastman Kodak Co. representative in Europe and a native of Stockholm, to escort Dr. Burkhart on an inspection of dental facilities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark...
...years the man and his fame developed slowly, irre- sistibly. The man grew by meeting real issues. He flayed cardplaying (bridge). He was alarmed by this new thing called movies, He flayed parents who let "boys 12 years old send flowers to little girls and go in carriages to escort them to balls." (He has now abandoned this gen- eral lire, doubtless because he finds the root-trouble is much deeper.) The man's fame grew by books, simple, devotional, polished. Largely distributed through the Y. M. C. A., The Manhood of the Master, The Meaning of Prayer...
...escort volunteered to storm the window. He was neither here nor there when a Yard watchman apprehended the visible portion of his body. University officials seemed to be satisfied with...