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...secret of his incognito was "B.-P.," beloved Lieut.-General Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 76, founder of the Boy Scouts in 1908 and Chief Scout of the World. When he stepped spryly off the steamer, hailed by Hungarian Scouts who had been forewarned. Lord Baden-Powell was sped to a more than regal abode, an historic tent used by the Magyar conquerors of Hungary in 900 A. D., now the property of Count Teleki and loaned by him to the Jamboree...
...join her husband on his. After breakfast next morning the special came to a leisurely stop at Hyde Park. The President descended a gangplank from the observation platform. Around him were hundreds of old friends and neighbors whom he saluted as "Tom" and "Joe" and '"Harry." A car sped him to Krum Elbow, the estate of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who was on hand to greet her son. The Vincent Astors dropped in for luncheon and in the afternoon the President went swimming in his outdoor pool. Determined to be a country squire taking his ease...
...machine gun. "Don't move or well blow your heads off!" cried one. "Which is Urschel?" No one answered. "Well, come along, we'll take both of you," he said. An hour later the kidnappers dumped Jarrett, unscathed, out of their car ten miles from town, sped away with Urschel. Mrs. Urschel, rich widow of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of oil wildcatters" whose fortune once exceeded $75,000,000, arranged to pay ransom as soon as contact was established with the kidnappers...
...brand new automobile-the only pomp requested by simple Pilot Post-pilot & party sped to Manhattan, police sirens shrilling through the late city crowds. General Italo Balbo, who had been caught in a traffic jam while trying to reach the field, waved from his car as they shot by. At the Hotel Roosevelt a physician found Post's condition good, noted that his hand was steady as a rock...
Howard Scott the Technocrat was going to make a speech, sped the news. Present would be President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, General William Irving Westervelt of Sears, Roebuck, old Clarence Darrow, Economist Stuart Chase. Two collateral bodies, the All America Technological Society and the National Technological Congress, were joining with the Continental Convention on Technocracy. It looked as though another flight into the upper air of serious attention might be in store for the limp technocratic skyrocket which last winter burst in a dazzling festoon of headlines and sputtered out in the back pages of hinterland newspapers...