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...item of last month. All was being arranged even to the incidental of what the newspapermen should wear. Such of "The Boys" as expected to attach themselves to the President's official entourage, said Secretary Everett Sanders, had best make ready their cutaway coats and pin-striped morning trousers. Silk toppers, patent leather shoes, spats and a stick would be the correct accessories. Nowhere, the inference was, is a greater premium set upon costume than at a Pan-American Congress and at this Congress, none must outplume the U. S. delegates, official or self-attached...
...have always opposed the hotheads who claim that the interests of Japan and America are conflicting. The loss of our silk trade with America alone would paralyze Japan. I maintain that the two great Pacific nations must be mutually friendly. The same applies to the Soviet Union, which is now retaking its place as a world power...
...Silk Legs is a technical term for those grotesque and abbreviated limbs on which stocking drummers display their flimsy wares. The drummer in this case is Madge Bellamy, and as such she is successful enough to surpass the sales records of her rival who is also her lover. Actress Bellamy, moreover, is herself a not unsatisfactory stuffing for cloaks, suits, stockings...
Sixty three men, one jump or more ahead of death, were listed last week by the Army Air Corps. Called the Caterpillar Club this unofficial organization is composed of all U. S. flyers who have dodged destruction by parachute leaps from disabled planes. Parachutes are made of silk; silk comes from caterpillars...
...moments for a ceremony- the assembling of the 2,000,000th vacuum cleaner which the company has manufactured since President Wardell created it in 1910. The 2,000,000th machine is resplendent. The parts are goldplated, the case studded with brilliants, the dust bag made of silk. It works, but it will not be sold because President Wardell has offered it as a sales trophy to that one of 22 branches which sells the most cleaners during October, November and December...