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...British Government's reception was an evening function in the Great Hall of the House of Lords. Premier Baldwin, pipe in pocket, fanned the fires of Anglo-American friendship. Ambassador Houghton sought to bank the same fires with the broad hint: "I would remind my countrymen that good men are scarce and that they will soon be needed at home...
Brick masons at East Chicago, Ind., slashed at mortar with their trowels last week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf...
...well known," he said. "Too conspicuous. They would know my pipe. But I would like to go A. W. 0. L.* from the Vice Presidency and go with them...
Ruddy, jolly, pipe-smoking Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain, last week delivered his 'valedictory at Halifax, Nova Scotia, sailed on the S. S. Empress of Scotland for England and his official duties at Westminster. Said he, speaking also for Mrs. Baldwin, who accompanied...
...make preliminary introductions. Henry Ford bowed for Herbert C. Hoover. William Randolph Hearst bowed for Andrew W. Mellon. Frank 0. Lowden rushed home to Illinois from the Thousand Islands and repeated his favorite cryptogram about no man ever running away from the presidency. Vice President Dawes clenched his pipe in a grin and said he would "saw wood...