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...home in Idaho. When he goes West he is obliged to rent office quarters and live at the homes of his friends or at a hotel. Nor is he any longer the Westerner on Horseback who used to canter through Washington's Rock Creek Park. He has not ridden since he had an operation on his prostate gland at Johns Hopkins in 1933. His home is nine rooms in a large apartment building on Connecticut Avenue. Unless he borrows his wife's 1931 La Salle, he strolls to his office about 11 o'clock each morning...
...Charles lived two years longer than his brother, gave $1,100,000 to Northwestern. Charles had two sons. One, Charles William Case Deering, died without issue before his father. The other was Roger. Roger Deering did not go to college. Tuberculous since he was 17, he was bed-ridden most of his years, lived a life as inactive as his grandfather's was exciting. He kept financial reports by his bedside, was sharp enough to get out of the stock-market before the 1929 crash. In search of dry air, he was carried to Egypt, Spain, then...
...gratifying as it is surprising that "it has happened here" with such little excitement and practically no violence. Governor Talmadge has not ridden down Pennsylvania Avenue on a white horse, thus upsetting all the best plans, but fascism has come before you could say Sinclair Lewis. The whiteshirts have done their work well...
What dolls are to little girls, war games are to little armies. Last week the little U. S. army of the air-the GHQ Air Force -began a fortnight's play at war under the toughest conditions it could find, in winter-ridden New England. Since there was no "enemy," no "tactical problem," but merely a fight against Nature, the maneuvers themselves proved of little interest to the public. Using Mitchel Field, N. Y., Concord, N. H. and Burlington, Vt. as bases, 62 pursuit, attack and bombing planes carrying 216 men, began chasing back & forth over snowy hills...
This week, however, Death once more accomplished what anti-Longsters had been unable to. Of cerebral hemorrhage died Senate-nominee Allen, 54, who had announced his main object in Washington would be to demand an investigation of the assassination of the man on whose political coattails he had ridden...