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What might well have kept President Hoover from having a guilty conscience about taking a holiday at this time was the presence in Florida of many another famed vacationist. Citizen Calvin Coolidge was gently relaxing from his literary labors at Mount Dora where he and Mrs. Coolidge were the guests of Capt. Archie Hurlburt. Mr. Coolidge had gone fishing only once in a month, had made no use of Capt. Hurlburt's outdoor swimming pool...
...looked on the bleak Himalayas and crossed the forbidden hills of Tibet honored Manhattan with his attention last week. "I was forcibly reminded of Mount Everest when I arrived," he declared. "This was when I saw the new Chrysler Building...
...ruddy, stalwart Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, 66, of Westerham, Kent, native of India, veteran army officer and diplomatist, treaty-maker with Tibet (1904)*, committee head of the expedition to climb unconquered Mount Everest. In Manhattan he was guest of honor at a "Tea Conference" of The Threefold Movement, of which he is London committee chairman. He told his hosts why no attempt has recently been made to scale the world's highest peak. Said he: "The Tibetans believe that their gods have been offended and are angry and so have requested us not to apply at present for leave...
...Mount Clemens, Mich., George Schwartz appeared in court to ask aid for his four children whom he claimed to be unable to support. "I'm sick, judge. I think I'm going to die," said he, whereupon he collapsed, died, was carried out of court. Quitter...
Last April at Mount Holyoke 23 colleges and universities were represented with an attendance of 600. This included delegations of foreign students. The Radcliffe assembly was initiated through Harvard last May with the cooperation of Sir Herbert Ames, Treasurer of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1926, Professor W. Y. Elliott, and Professor C. J. Friedrich...