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...shipboard, had run a temperature for four days, was obviously not up to cricket. Upon landing at Mombasa, Kenya Colony, T. R. H. proceeded to Nairobi, the capital, where they put up for several days at Government House with Governor Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, before plunging into the interior of Africa after big game...
Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West called, to bring the President up to date on the Boulder Dam (Colorado River) project and also, presumably, on the Hoover campaign as seen from Washington...
George W. Lane of Chicago, brother of the late Franklin K. Lane, President Wilson's Secretary of the Interior. Reason: "Superior qualifications...
Connoisseurs who inspected the Augustus when she docked found her interior decoration rather commonplacely Italian, in Renaissance and various provincial styles. The Augustus has not the vast, gloomy, cathedral splendor of the Roma, her sister ship (in hull dimensions only). The Augustus has not the rampant, modernist decore of the new Saturnia, a rival Italian motor ship of the Cosulich Line...
There was, just after the War, some difficulty in sending money from the U. S. to certain states in the interior of Europe. To insure safety, people who wanted to do so entrusted their currency to travelers rather than the mails. Jake Horowitz got the notion that it might be profitable to act as a paid courier for this purpose and set out, with several companions, to do so. By the time the party reached Paris, they were broke. When they drew lots to see which one should stay in Paris instead of going further, Horowitz got the short straw...