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What U. S. dog performed the most heroic feat during the past six months? The Spratt's Dog Food Co. wanted to know for publicity reasons and to award a gold medal. Last week the judges reached decision...
Millions of people to whom Calvin Coolidge had been and was still an oracle of heroic proportions, and more millions to whom he had been no such thing, read with deepest interest what Mr. Coolidge had to say. One of the first things they noticed was the sense of responsibility with which the oracle approached his task. Here was not the informal, drily amusing Calvin Coolidge of Amherst reunions, where he is content to sit on the ground and idly chat with friends, nor was it the taciturn, retiring inhabitant of the little Northampton law office and the shady...
Married. Mrs. Eleanor Stuart Blue, widow of Rear Admiral Victor Blue, U. S. N. who, as a lieutenant in the Spanish-American War was advanced in rank for "extraordinary and heroic service" in aiding the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor; and Rear Admiral Frederic Brewster Bassett Jr., U. S. N. (retired), also a Spanish War veteran; at Chatham...
Sundry measures of price reduction have been tried, without signal success, with the purpose of lifting aviation out of its economic morass. Last week heroic methods were proposed by Erie P. Halliburton, president of Southwest...
...sentiments of any self-respecting tower under similar conditions can easily be imagined. After waging such an heroic struggle for so many months against the forces of nature in general and gravity in particular, thus to have one's efforts crowned with a mere golden ball obviously fake, at that, would be enough to try the patience of a steeple. And from the point of view of the public, the resemblance which the unfortunate Tower bears to the late-lamented Happy Hooligan cannot easily be overlooked...