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...cotton business after all, instead he accepted a post as "chief operating officer" of the Transoceanic Corp., an organization which hopes to borrow money from the Shipping Board to build six fast liners and inaugurate a four-day trans-atlantic service to Europe. Said Chief Operating Officer Hartley: "I thank God for this opportunity ... to put our country back on the high seas...
Next day every one talks about the brave fellow who, while others dithered, plunged in through the burning hall and saved a life. The burned-out neighbors thank him profusely. The servant thanks him. He is a hero, for a while?and then life gets back to routine. The fire becomes a legend...
...suppose that I should thank you for recalling the days of "gadgets" and "Chiefs...
...Thank you for the Liver Diet recipes which arrived this morning and were promptly passed on to the young lady who is "doing time" on liver. I believe this to be an instance of service, real and rare...
...Good Will from Coolidge." An excited restauranteur sprinkled champagne in the street over which he was to pass. National Holiday was declared. Speeches. Eight hundred native school children held a "sing song" for him in front of the U. S. Legation. He made one of his shortest speeches: "I thank you for the reception accorded me." No references were made in the adjectivally enthusiastic press to the recent fatal fighting between natives and U. S. Marines...