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Citizen Alfred Emanuel Smith and friends were occupying the penthouse on Palm Beach's Whitehall Hotel (home of the late Henry M. Flagler). Mornings he went to the Breakers Hotel beach to swim in the ocean. His figure in a bathing suit, his startling ability to squirt a stream of Atlantic water through his front teeth several feet into the air while he floated on his back stirred the interest of fashionable folk. Afternoons he played golf at the Everglades club with John Jacob Raskob...
Governor Herbert H. Lehman, whose arbitral efforts last year brought order out of almost identical chaos in New York's cloak and suit trade, was asked to do likewise in this dispute...
...Omaha, one Fred Merker threatened suit because a box which he had paid $400 to have shipped from Tampa, Fla., contained a corpse other than that of his son, erroneously reported murdered...
...midst of our discussion there came the encouraging news that Harvard, through the gift of Edward S. Harkness, will definitely give this plan a trial. And then we have recently learned that through the generosity of this same gentleman, Yale also intends to follow suit. Believing that the action of two such universities brought this plan, beyond any question not only into the realms of practicability, but also would set on foot a movement that would spread throughout this nation, we felt, unwisely, that we might lay down the pen and await certain developments...
...weeks later when Elder Statesman Nicholas Muchanoff, who might have been expected to make the legal aspects of the match, was followed to Rome by dashing General Ivan Wolkoff, close intimate of Tsar Boris, a cavalier well able to achieve the amorous aspect of a monarch's suit...