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...That more expenditure on maintenance and new and larger buildings with more extensive grounds were the only possible cures for the unpleasantness of the station...
Before leaving Waterloo Station, London, the ex-Lord Chancellor was asked if he had written out his speeches. " No," replied Lord Birkenhead, " God has given me a tongue and that is better than...
...presumably, have tarts. Presidents, New England Presidents, have whole-wheat and whole-rye cereal. This was the breakfast order that President Coolidge sent to the chef of the New Willard Hotel, his temporary Washington home. The Willard had none. Washington had none. But the Department of Agriculture's experimental station at Arlington, Va., obligingly cut and thrashed a little wheat. Virginia farmers furnished rye. Mixed 50-50, the new dish was prepared at the Willard, a breakfast fit for a President...
...result has been accusation and counteraccusation. Ellis Island, which receives by far the greater share of the immigrants, has accommodations for only 1,700 at a time. When 15,000 arrive in one day the station is "swamped." Immigration officials accuse the steamship lines of bringing hardships upon the immigrants. In England there are protests about the " brutality " of Ellis Island. Senators inveigh. Steamship officials protest that they are doing their best to mollify conditions under the present...
...Navy will give them a good run. Two of four U. S. entries have made their final tests. The CR-32, tested at Garden City, is a seaplane adaptation of the racer which won the Pulitzer Cup in 1921; the TW-2, tested at the Philadelphia Naval Air Station, is the most powerful single-motored seaplane ever built, carrying 700 horsepower in its Wright engine. According to official observers, these are the fastest seaplanes in the world...