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Already Mrs. Morrow was out on a chatty, homey campaign for her husband. She addressed women at the Jersey City Y. W. C. A, told of her fear of tripping in her court dress before Britain's Queen Mary, admired Her Majesty's courage for putting a pocket in her velvet brocaded gown, marveled that Funnyman Will Rogers had adopted one of her own jokes.* At Newark to a large Republican audience including Governor Morgan Foster Larsen, she detailed a trans-Atlantic telephone conversation with her husband as follows...
...Once Henry Ford wanted to take it off the Government's hands. Then Alabama Power Co. offered to lease it. Lately American Cyanamid Co. has been bidding for it. Two years ago Congress passed legislation for the Government to operate its own property, only to have the bill pocket-vetoed by President Coolidge...
...item reminded Sir Thomas that he had crammed the summons into his pocket weeks before, when a call boy had shouted it was time to conduct a concert...
Fishing in the same pocket of the suit he wore at the concert, negligent Sir Thomas found the summons, hopped to a telephone, rang up his solicitor...
...ministerial declaration Dr. Brüning was annoyingly vague, promised in a general way to continue Germany's present foreign policy "unchanged," to promote the country's "economic health.'' He did not even mention these live political issues: 1) Shall Germany build a second "pocket battleship" like the famed Ersatz Preussen? (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) 2) Along what lines will the Government administer the new Defense-of-the-Reich Act? (TIME, March 31) 3) What is to be done about Thuringia's Minister of Interior, redoubtable Dr. Frick, who continues to defy the central German...