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...Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, saying: "By order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting him to the White House for dinner. Later in the year (1906) Roosevelt, looking for a U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, remembered the stream-crosser, appointed Henry...
...Studebaker stockholders had other strong food to chew on last week. This was the report of the test of swift endurance, run by a stock Studebaker at Culver City, Calif. In 81 hours a four-passenger, closed model, six-cylinder car covered 5,000 miles (equivalent of six months' ordinary driving) at an average speed of 61.12 miles per hour.* No fully equipped stock car had previously been put through a 5,000-mile speed-endurance test. So Studebaker has a record...
...opportune moments, the Papacy can and does strike swift and sharp. Last week, in Poland, where 95% of all Y. M. C. A. members are Roman Catholics, the Archbishop of Warsaw, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, decided to smash the "Y" at one blow. This he prepared to do by issuing a formal message to all Polish Christians...
...shrewd reply, a smack of the old wit of white-haired Cardinal-Bishop Vincenzo Vannutelli, 91-year old Dean of the Sacred College, might be seen. Or, others guessed, of Cardinal-Bishop Gaetano de Lai, as famed for apt reply as sharp-tongued Irish divine. Dean Swift...
...Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher started A. Mutt in the San Francisco Chronicle as a race track tipster, in 1907. Little Jeff was the inmate of an asylum Mutt visited to make wild bets in peace. Swift, efficient bundle of nerves, Mr. Fisher ran with Walter Eckersall on a championship team at the Penn Relays 25 years ago. His income, somewhere near $200,000, affords him art and idea assistants...