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Sudden illness brought to a halt the happy and almost triumphant return of the President from Alaska. Hardly more than a week earlier excessive fatigue had forced Mrs. Harding to take to her bed at Fairbanks, the furthest point of the Presidential journey. Easy stages on the return trip and thorough rest had restored Mrs. Harding, in part at least, when the President's illness came...
...President Harding, members of the Cabinet and prominent naval officers inspected the Langley, the navy's sole aircraft carrier. The party was transported in the great airplane elevators from one deck to the other, and the President inspected with much interest the " fiddle strings" landing gear used to halt the airplanes when alighting on the upper deck. As a result of his visit, Mr. Harding is said to be more strongly than ever in favor of converting some of the navy's battle cruisers into aircraft carriers...
...nationwide building boom continues. Mr. Hoover recently recommended that the Federal Government refrain from building operations, as material prices are high and labor fully employed. The Federal Reserve Board has similarly voted to halt new construction of banking offices. Everyone in the trade seems to be making every effort to halt the rise in building costs, which has caused some uneasiness among mortgage companies and building and loan associations. In New York confusion has followed Justice Tierney's opinion that the Building Tax Exemption Law is unconstitutional. Appeal will be taken; meanwhile New York builders are bewildered...
...Stock and Cotton Exchanges experienced a halt and recovery during the past week...
Although the Bowdoin game food next on the schedule, the coaching force devoted a large part of its energies to preparation for the Centre and Dartmouth games. Captain Buell and Owen were kept out of the line-up, which enabled the men from the pine-tree state to halt repeatedly the Crimson rushes. At the end of the first quarter Pfaffman sent a low kick just over the cross-bar for the first score, after three line plunges had failed to gain the required distance. Bowdoin made a strong bid to tie the score, but Smith's 44-yard attempt...