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...often has a British Ambassador had to take such backtalk. Next day the Ovey hat went back on the Ovey head and with knotted brow Sir Esmond, hastily summoned to London, drove to the railway station. Quickly the young men in his Embassy announced that this was not an official recall; unofficially they let it be known that it was unlikely Sir Esmond would return to Moscow. In the smoky station was gathered the entire foreign diplomatic corps (but not Commissar Litvinov or his British wife, Ivy Low) to bid Sir Esmond and his wife Godspeed. As the train pulled...
...Reno, Nev., to "enjoy a ride over the Sierra," with his onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Early next morning a little brass-trimmed locomotive pulling an ancient yellow coach took them out of Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when he had had a mining engineer...
...workmen) will lower the door away. The Pope will pray while prelates sprinkle the aperture with holy water. Then all will enter, kissing the jambs as they pass. Thereafter the public may enter all through the year. Calendar, Audiences with Pius XI will become increasingly frequent through the year. Railway and steamship lines advertising Holy Year tours point out that scarcely a week will pass without the Pope taking part in some ceremony. Kings and queens and ex-monarchs will visit him. Easter Sunday he will pontificate in St. Peter's, perhaps bless the multitude from the loggia...
Last December Writer Shaw squinted happily at a crowd in a London railway station, declared, "I am really going away because I want to get away from you," and set off on a world tour aboard the Empress of Britain. Since then the world's editors have received-and printed-one, two or three despatches on Shaw each week...
Matsuoka, who headed the Japanese delegation that recently walked out of the League Assembly, was threatened with death in New York City a few days ago. Yesterday while on the train on route to Boston, a second assassination plot was revealed when a railway police officer discovered two iron pipes wrapped in a Chinese flag lying across the track. Matsuoka was not informed of this plot until he reached Boston. He was accompanied by four detectives...