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...have been President long ago." Toward dusk, in the big house on the Palo Alto hill, blackboards were set up, just as they had been one triumphant evening in 1928. On that occasion the happy guests and their gravely exalted host had watched the electoral votes of the nation pile up, up, up into the most colossal majority ever polled by a President-elect-444 for Hoover & Curtis to 87 for Smith &; Robinson. Now many of the same guests and a host deeply dejected but keeping a brave front, watched the slow pile-up of an electoral total even more...
...TAKE GREEN OFF THE ROCK PILE...
...game prophecies would indicate that the Crimson players should pile up about four touchdowns to their opponents' two. The Indians have been somewhat crippled by the loss of their stellar punter, Bill Clark, as well as that of Al Baldwin, 198-pound regular tackle, while Hageman and his first string teammates will enter the game intact, with Johnny Grady, the season's discovery, as the only man outside of Bennett who will not be available for this afternoon's clash...
Last week the vultures found ripe carrion, a pile of 45 framed etchings at $2 each. They were rather smudgy plates by someone obviously impressed by William Blake, all on the same basic motif: nude man in supplication before a female angel. Each was signed "In Verehrung gewidmet"-dedicated in adoration-"Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920." The vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over...
...Samuel Seabury. Mayor McKee, young, handsome, sober, tackled his new job with a vigor and thoroughness that made many a New Yorker who had forgotten what good government was like gasp with happy astonishment. A new broom, he swept clean and by last week had accumulated a sizeable pile of Tammany trash...