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"It is a pleasure to come back to W ashington ... but it is a great relief not to have to assume the duties of an office. . . . I suppose you are interested in what I have been doing while I have been away. . . . I have done a little writing that'you...
¶ To the White House last week went a Virginia delegation of Izaak Walton Leaguers, led by Congressman Robert Walton Moore. To the President they handed an expensive rod and reel, said it was "a token of esteem and gratitude for the impetus given outdoor sports, particularly fishing, which the...
Mrs. Gann's brother, Vice President Charles Curtis, continued last week to "rest up" between sessions of Congress. Once a jockey, he will go down in history as the Vice President (or as the President, if anything should happen to President Hoover) who liked to go to horse races...
On April 23, Carrier Rowan landed in Kingston, Jamaica, sailed Cuba-ward that night on a dirty native fishing boat under the eyes of the Spanish patrol which was scouring the Caribbean. Flat on his back against a gunwale, Carrier Rowan heard a Spaniard swagger alongside shouting queries; heard his...
¶In Manhattan, the Philharmonic last week began a twelfth season under the patronage of Adolph Lewisohn. Willem van Hoogstraten, winter conductor for Portland, Ore., is, for the eighth successive summer, conductor and cynosure at the nightly concerts in Lewisohn Stadium. Last week he had just returned from mountain climbing...