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...great nautical pother has been stirred in the Press because Old Ironsides was not sailed. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke made trouble for himself by publicly doubting whether the present-day Navy could muster a crew capable of handling a square-rigger. Old sailors' homes fairly thundered with indignant denials. Mr. Jahncke later explained that the Constitution had an exhibition schedule to keep, could not risk delays under canvas. He proposed that she be turned over later to Annapolis midship men for training purposes...
...sound off for the Republican nomination against President Hoover. Recalled was their long personal antagonism which culminated fortnight ago when President Hoover spoke alone at Valley Forge while Governor Pinchot was memorializing his old idol Theodore Roosevelt at his Oyster Bay tomb. While nobody seriously expected Mr. Pinchot to muster 10% of the delegates to the national convention, he became an anti-Hoover symbol around whom disgruntled Republicans could rally. Last week Nebraska's glum old Senator Norris remarked : "Pinchot would make an excellent man and I'm for him 500 times more than I am for President...
...continue for another year as Grand Sachem. Under its rules a Grand Sachem serves one year, cannot be reelected. Mr. Voorhis was chosen Grand Sachem in 1912 when he was 83. He has served ever since as honorary head of Tammany Hall through the inability of the Sachems to muster a majority vote in favor of someone else. Each passing year they have expected Time to settle their Grand Sachembarrassment by making a vacancy, but Mr. Voorhis, now nearly 102 and in good health, has continued to outsmart them...
...half the delegates considered it hypocritical to call on a President so hostile to their principle of Prohibition repeal. Therefore Mrs. Sabin and Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, the organization's secretary, could muster only 534 Vets for the march to the White House. Mrs. Nicoll carried a W. 0. F. N. P. R. resolution petitioning the President and Congress to resubmit the 18th Amendment to the States. This she handed to the President...
Tobacco when he looked at the pile of proxies to be voted in his favor at the stockholders' meeting last week. No similar pleasure accrued to Stockholder Rich ard Reid Rogers who had attempted to muster a bloc in protest of President Hill's $2,000,000 bonus (TIME, March 23). When balloting time came Dissenter Rog ers saw his candidate for the directorate receive a paltry 11,980 votes out of 2,627,953. Angry, he spoke of carrying on his uphill anti-Hill fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume...