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...sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns 52 ft. high, down avenues whose lamp posts had been camouflaged as palm trees to the Union Station where he escaped from a Shriner-ridden city on a Baltimore & Ohio special train. Next morning he stopped at Highland, N. Y., motored across the Hudson to the peaceful quiet of Hyde Park. There he would spend four easy days before going on to West Point to attend the graduation exercises at the U. S. Military Academy...
...more coherent statement of his satisfaction for members of the Press: "I am delighted to have won, especially as this is the King's Jubilee Year." The big brown man was Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, who had just seen his horse Bahram, ridden by able Jockey Freddie Fox, win the 156th Epsom Derby...
...bought up many a profitable electric company; from his modest office on Irving Place, he had guided one of the world's biggest gas and electric companies through numerous storms of public opposition without a single accusation of personal apostasy; democratic and hardworking, he had always ridden to his office by subway, worked patiently to replace the company's attitude of haughty indifference with a spirit of courtesy and service. Reluctant to see him go, the trustees nonetheless voted to adopt the retirement plan, effective July 1. Next Jan. 29, for the first time in a quarter...
...distinguished guests wandered off to inspect the Jersey cows, the Hampshire hogs, the gambusia fish, the flat fat fields, the workshops in which a War-ridden poverty-stricken peasantry is being guided toward economic independence...
Bronson Cutting, however, was not a dilettante in New Mexico but a buster of the best-laid plans of politicians. In that machine-ridden State he won a following of Spanish-American voters, of War veterans, of political liberals, all of whose languages he spoke, whose interests he championed. Although a nominal Republican he fought and broke Albert Fall's Republican machine. In 1924 he helped elect a Democratic Senator, Sam Bratton, and in 1926 a Republican Governor, Richard C. Dillon. Following year Governor Dillon named him to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. As a Republican Senator...