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...President himself cannot pretend to have the time for detailed investigation. But the fine minds of the citizens are available for the search. So you will know why when you hear of more and more temporary committees, commissions, conferences, researches?that they are not for Executive action but are one of the sound processes for the search, production and distribution of the truth. . . . The people will take care of progress if the Government can put the signs on the road...
Members of his staff professed themselves as mystified as any necromancer's audience, began a frantic search of Foochow and vicinity...
...commissioners, U. S. District Judge Paul John McCormick, returned to his Los Angeles home for the holidays. There, "speaking as an individual," he gave an interview on the commission's work, in which he saw two major problems-Prohibition enforcement and "governmental lawlessness." Deploring the search of private homes by Dry agents without warrants, he observed...
...Duncan Phillips had more literary than esthetic interest. As a child he had lived in gloomy Pittsburgh where his father's house was hung with murky landscapes of the Hudson River School in massive, gilded frames. Small Phillips decided he disliked pictures. After college he traveled widely in search, he says, of something to interest him. Paintings did it. His first enthusiasm was Honore Daumier (1808-79) French caricaturist and painter; afterward there were others: the French Impressionists, French and American moderns. But his first interest never waned; today Mr. Phillips has the best Daumier collection in the world...
Again Costes. Round and round a giant's circle, droning on through the Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné ("Doudou") Costes and his companion Paul Codos, it made its way over flat-roofed, smelly Marseilles, to time-broken Avignon, to musty Narbonne, and then over the same route again. For 52 hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort...