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President Hoover does not like to make speeches to the People. Last week, however, he traveled some 2,000 mi. to address them on four occasions in five days. For the first 16 months of his term he was too preoccupied with Congress and new legislation to leave Washington. Later he was held close to his White House by the necessity of staffing the Federal machine with new appointments, directing drought relief. Now, with summer over and a congressional campaign coming on, he was moved to go to the People with a series of addresses which he bunched together like...
...defunct Delphic Studio. Exhibitions were given, the organ of critical praise swelled in diapason. The West's view of Orozco, a view of one of the finest things he has done, was made possible by the removal of some scaffolding from the dining hall of Pomona College, 40 mi. south of Los Angeles. Last winter, head of Pomona's art department was Professor Jose Pijoan, authority on Latin American art, avid Orozcoan. So long, so vigorously did he preach Orozco to the sons and daughters of Pomona that on their own initiative they invited Orozco to come west...
...Beauvais, French cathedral town, 49 mi. northwest of Paris, restive peasants heard a strumming through their night-shuttered windows. It was long after midnight. It was difficult to remove the shutters, for a hard rain storm, but one no harder than usual for the season, was blowing in from the Atlantic. When they could look abroad there, seemingly within reach of a man on earth, was the breath-taking silvery bulk of the R-101. She was lurching along, a gigantic stricken thing, 400 ft. from the ground...
...took leave of absence two years ago to go to Antarctica with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Fortnight ago he got his old job back. Last week he took off from Cleveland with 700 Ib. of mail, rode a tail wind over the Alleghenies and into Newark Airport (412 mi.) in 2 hr. 51 min.-a new record...
...into the busy executive offices of Western Maryland Railroad Co. In his private office, President Maxwell Cunningham Byers, 52, leaned back and talked with one of his special representatives, W. Taylor Springer. The railroad was running smoothly. He was satisfied. Western Maryland trains were on schedule over their 875 mi. of track. Engineers, brakemen, switchmen, signalmen were on the job. The road's car-loadings were keeping up at a remarkable rate. During the past dull nine months, gross had dropped only...