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Nobody outranking President Conant's personal secretary was left on the previous occasion. Some were fishing: most were at Pittsburg. Today been Dean Birkhoff. Dean Lewis, the financial vice-president and the secretary of the Corporation are all present.
Prime political event of last week was the beginning of a fishing trip. One morning Franklin Roosevelt, 27 hours out of Washington, detrained at Biloxi, Miss, accompanied by his trusty supporter, Senator Pat ("The Fox") Harrison. With Governor Hugh White of Mississippi they drove to Jefferson Davis' onetime estate...
Espana. British freighters meanwhile were running General Franco's blockade of Bilbao with impunity, making preparations to evacuate as many women and children as possible to France, England and Scandinavia. Out of Bilbao harbor last week came the British freighter Knitsley, loaded with Basque iron ore for Welsh steel...
Ships have found radiotelephone profitable and 20 liners on the Atlantic and one on the Pacific now have regular ship-shore service, as do fishing smacks out of Boston, a few yachts, tugs and pilot boats in the harbors of New York, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
One of the ablest baseballers who ever lived, famed Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb is now one of the world's richest retired athletes. His fortune consists mostly of fat Coca-Cola holdings which he bought long ago on advice from his hunting crony, Coca-Cola's President Bob...