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...that moment a platoon of Harvard Dames caught sight of the unfortunate Mr. Conant, and brought him triumphantly through the door. He soon became the life of the party, despite the splendid presence of Cardinal O'Connell, in his magnificent robes of office...
...this or that liquor syndicate. In London and Glasgow, astute liquor brokers were selling "brands ' on which the printer's ink was still wet. All was hurly-burly in the rush for retail, wholesale and importing licenses and quotas. Broken Axles. Under the eyes of a platoon of U. S. revenue agents, a caravan of 100 trucks clattered through the still streets of Philadelphia one night last week, shuttling 50,000 cases of gin across the river to Camden, N. J. Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot was jamming through his Legislature a $2-a-gallon floor...
...showdown. This time he lost. Mr. Holmes was reluctant to move from his big paneled office in the Chrysler Building but when he did he took offices, like Mr. Beaty, a few floors above his old company. Last week in that office, unlike Mr. Beaty, he had a platoon of stenographers working busily on a campaign to justify his reign. Out to Texaco stockholders and the Press went a 43-page booklet containing Mr. Holmes's version of last spring's boardroom battle and a list of his good works. With it went a letter from a stockholders...
...mighty cheer went up from the seven hills around Lough Foyle. Londonderry's tidy harbor, as General Italo Balbo's seaplane armada circled the city with a fearful roar of 48 wide-open motors. They paraded the sky in platoons of six"black-hulled, red, green, white"each platoon being formed by two tight triads. Soon all were moored, and General Balbo and his officers went ashore in motorboats to tread rose petals, cast by Italian children on their way to Londonderry's Guildhall. The 24 seaplanes rode at moorings, drinking gasoline by the hundred-gallon...
Paper-clipper Bilbo's first official act was to send his assistant off for an after noon of browsing at the Library of Congress. His next was to admit a platoon of newshawks...