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Anger breeds anger. Colonel William Mitchell, former Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service was angry and spoke his mind. The War Department heard his words and grew angry. Reports had it that he would be court-martialed or at least severely reprimanded...
Carey & Cooke. Horizons broadened. Buffalo grew. The Marine Trust Co. became a mighty institution. The red-fronted bazaars of F. W. Woolworth began to make annual fortunes. Mr. Coote, in the fullness of years became chairman of the board of the former, a director of the latter. B. F. Keith's theatres prospered at the chief railroad junctions. Cornell University acquired international fame. Mr. Cooke is director of the former, trustee of the latter...
...Moscow was seen. Many of the leaders of the outlaw strike were known to be Reds. The owners offered to remit penalties if the sailors would return to work promptly. The officers of the National Seamen's and Firemen's Union denounced the strikers, but conditions grew worse rather than improved...
...passed. Apprehension grew. Planes put out from Hawaii. Eighteen destroyers of the line were ordered from Samoa to join in the search, and proceeded "with orderly haste" to do as they were told. That hope was dying became manifest in the furious urgency with which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain...
...Esmeralda?that the orchestra played, apache dance of children's parties, to whose rhythm plump little girls have danced with skinny little boys through generations of summer afternoons while pink palms grew moist and socks crept slowly down to form a wad at the heels of minute dancing slippers? Not at all. The dance was the odious "Charleston," condemned by all dancing masters last year, now adopted in deference to popular taste, after vast modifications. No flourish of trumpets attends its innocent pattern. Dancing masters stand up straight; they do not lift their toes from the floor, or walked pigeontoed...