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Harried by three years of bad business. worried by falling profits and mounting deficits, little wonder that the 1,200 businessmen conventioning in Washington were eager for anything that promised better conditions. Certainly many a man had in mind a better set-up for his industry, this or that needed thing which the industry had not done for itself, which might be done by the Government. For that hope, the Chambermen voted. But did they understandingly vote for Revolution? (Only the big word, "revolution." adequately expresses the opinion of many an observer both native and foreign, concerning the present trend...
...lusty Irishman who used to sell whale oil, was to be custodian of the executive offices. Because she was so quick at detecting important voices, Miss Louise Hachmeister of Manhattan had been picked to take charge of the White House telephone switchboard. Mr. Roosevelt was "delighted" with the set-up for the Inaugural, as revealed by the first official copy of the program. Nothing remained but for him to go to Washington and take over the biggest job in the nation at the hardest period in its history...
...first difficulty I meet in training good players into this style is one of making them understand that an occasional soft shot played along the wall is more vulnerable than the average match-play corner shot. In other words, the corner shot that is not perfectly executed is a set-up for the other player, whereas the ball hit from the rear of the court is comparatively hard to put away...
Prestige was the prime requisite for the first President of the B. I. S. and who had more prestige than gruff, Scotch-blooded Gates W. McGarrah, then board chairman of New York's Federal Reserve Bank? On the other hand what U. S. citizen knew the whole European set-up well enough to act as august President McGarrah's adviser? From the first Banker McGarrah took to Lawyer Fraser. He was elected...
With his voluntary abdication from a mythical throne in Central Europe, Arliss is forced with either remaining faithful to his queen or returning to the wife he left in order to be king. Off hand, it looks like a set-up for the girl of his youth, but she's changed, you see, and then with no place to worry about, the queen begins to develop a new personality. It's an interesting problem in human nature to which Arliss provides the most satisfactory kind of solution...