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...President Roosevelt got only 45 minutes outside the White House last week- a short motor ride with Secretary McIntyre into Virginia. As swimming is his only exercise and as the Independent Offices appropriation bill carrying funds for a White House pool was vetoed by President Hoover, President Roosevelt was able to take no exercise. The New York Daily News (tabloid) started to collect a Roosevelt Swimming Pool Fund which last week, by dimes and dollars from "forgotten men" and school children, had risen...
...socialite and an equestrian, a conspicuous member of all the best clubs from the Union to Piping Rock. On a ridge at Brookville, surrounded by one of the few groves of real trees still alive on Long Island, he built himself a huge rambling house, with terraced gardens, a pool on each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington." (In 1918 he suggested filling the Central Park Reservoir with coal. "New York...
Operators in other regions watched Appalachian's development with deep interest. The U. S. Government through the Federal court at Richmond, Va. obtained an injunction on grounds that the selling pool was in violation of the anti-trust laws. The fine plan of Coalman Francis was spiked before a ton of coal was sold...
...going now, do you? Sit down awhile. Don't often seen anyone around here now except to take exams. It's not like the old days--nothing is for that matter. Say, I remember when the boys used to go over to Brighton to fight the town pool-hall gang. It wasn't all beer they had inside 'em then either! Then there were real riots--gness we won't see many more of those. Well, we'll have beer again soon. But take it from me, beer never has drowned a Harvard thirst...
Harvard's annual course for senior life savers in the University who wish to pass their examinations to become qualified examiners gets under way Monday afternoon in the swimming pool of the Indoor Athletic Building, and will continue for about six weeks. The course is open to all members of the University who are senior life savers, 20 years of age, and can pass the eligibility test, and will be held in two classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons from 3 to 4 o'clock and from 4 to 5 o'clock...