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...what promised to be the last day of the session Commander Waters led thousands of his B. E. F. to the Capitol to protest adjournment. Barred from the plaza by a thin line of police, the veterans were at first good-natured and docile. When a truck dumped a load of bricks ordered for fireproofing a sub-basement of the Capitol, they roared with laughter...
Over Phoenix. Ariz, at midnight the Akron circled for a time, adjusting her trim for the push over the mountains. She disgorged her two airplanes to fly on by themselves, lightening the airship's load by 6,000 Ib. and adding 2,000 ft. to her ceiling. Crossing Texas, Commander Rosendahl spurned Fort Worth and Dallas to fly over his mother's home at Cleburne. On the last leg from Parris Island the Akron averaged 75 knots, a record...
...Trust Co.]. . . . In accordance with our understanding when I became associated with the R. F. C. that I would be released when its work was properly established. I now ask that you accept my resignation." "Intensely regretful." President Hoover did so. In view of pending Relief legislation which would load vast fresh problems on R. F. C., Mr. Dawes' retirement amazed his friends and associates...
...famous Frost case in London in 1921 gives Author Fort food for speculation. A load of coal took to exploding in the Frost family grates, hopped out, rolled across the floors, went through walls without leaving a trace behind. Flatirons and coal buckets danced. One of the Frost children died of fright. Thoroughly investigated by the police and others, the phenomena were never denied. About the same time there were violent explosions of British coal in France, Belgium, Switzerland. Author Fort calls attention to the fact that it was a period of violent oppression and bitterness in the British coal...
There is no Federal law against nepotism.* A Senator or Congressman may load the Government payroll with relatives as heavily as his conscience or his constituency will permit. Some family jobholders actually work; others only draw pay. Among the most industrious Capitol clerks is Mrs. John Nance Garner who gets $325 per month for ably serving her husband, the House Speaker, as secretary. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette got his training for office as his late great father's secretary. In some Congressional families public service is an honest vocation. In others it is admittedly a racket...