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Work Done. Newsmen know that little is ever accomplished during their perennial Manhattan muster save chit-chat and jollification. Chief business done by the A. P.: the re-election of Publisher Frank Brett Noyes of the Washington Star to be president; the promotion of Associate Publisher John Cowles, 31, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, from second vice president to first; denial of membership to the Wenatchee, Wash., Sun. Chief item of the formal program: a speech from Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson broadcast to the banquet from London. The toast (by custom the only...
...occasion for the muster at Patchogue is a socialite benefit performance. And although the onetime troupers are delighted to see one another again, Sissy and Queenie are loth to admit publicly their acquaintanceship with Rosie and the spangled past. But after Sissy's daughter marries a musicomedian, and after Sissy's husband admits clandestine friendship for the free-and-easy Rosie, and after Patchogue society ostracizes Sissy's entire household, the curtain bangs down on a scene of beer-drinking good-fellowship between the aging handmaidens of Buffoonery...
When, last fall, the Botanical Gardens withered in a state of financial delinquency, a problem arose which apparently called for all the rare tact and ingenuity which the combined forces of sundry garden clubs and a Harvard administration could muster to the foreground. The situation was attacked will such a display of apprehension and diffuse polemics that it assumed all the seriousness of a three act mystery play to undergraduates uninitiated in the science and verbiage of horticulture...
Stockholders and steelmen knew this was no remote, hypothetical situation, but that Cyrus Eaton's Republic Steel is angling for Gulf, can probably muster at least 40% of the voting power. Meanwhile, U. S. Steel, foreseeing new competition in this territory, last fortnight announced it will spend "millions" on its subsidiary, Tennessee Coal, Iron...
...hockey club could have, and anyone who saw them turn back the Montreal Maroons last Saturday evening to hang up a new record for consecutive victories came away from the Montreal Forum convinced that it will be a long time before any other club will be able to muster up power enough to turn them back. The Maroons are a heavy, bruising outfit, but good as they were they were no match for the Boston team when the precious goals were needed. It is in the matter of teamwork that the Bruins particularly excel. When a streaking forward gets...