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...Completed last week was the White House swimming pool, built by popular subscriptions of $15,000. Tiled in colors, 50 by 15 ft., it stands in the west wing connecting the executive offices with the main building. In accepting it, President Roosevelt revealed that he had once tried to build a similar pool but it caved in. He took a 30-min. swim before dinner - his first exercise since entering the White House...
From Witness Barrett the battling lawyers draw an amazing story of how Mr. Mitchell made money for his wife. Whenever he bought a good stock, joined a pool or participated in a promising syndicate, he would cut her in. Only once did she lose. Often she was member of a big underwriting syndicate headed by such firms as Kuhn, Loeb or Dillon, Reed. Sometimes he did not even trouble to notify his wife until he mailed a check for her share of the profits. When he did, it was always with a formal letter starting "Dear Elizabeth," and filled with...
...East Texas wells from 50? to 10? a barrel, the same low reached nine months ago before the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the oil fields with militia. Reason for the latest cut: a new proration ruling by Texas increasing the allowable production of the East Texas pool from 400,000 to nearly...
Byzantine building in rose, ochre and brown stone, with two domed wings and high in the centre a Jesus Tower, visible for miles. In this plant are reading, writing, game and music rooms, an auditorium, swimming pool, gymnasium, cafeteria, trade school, all with the most modern equipment. One room is an exact replica of the one in London in which George Williams, dry goods clerk, helped found the first Y. M. C. A. in 1844. The Juilliard Musical Foundation has given a fine organ, the American Bible Society a copy of the Bible in every language it publishes. Most...
...your issue of April 3, one of your correspondents tells a story about a lovely long word invented by a scientist to represent "the complete sound caused by the sudden entry from above of a large stone into a deep pool." As a matter of fact the word pompholygopaplilasma (for that is the correct transliteration) was invented by the comic poet Aristophanes, and may be found at 1. 249 of his play The Frogs. It is made up of pompholyx which means a bubble, and paphlisma which means a frothing or foaming up. Hence the Aristophanic compound represents the sound...