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...John Hay Whitney's three-year-old Singing Wood: the Withers Stakes; when the favorite, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's High Quest, stumbled at the start and threw his jockey; on a sloppy track, at Belmont Park. ¶ S. L. Froelich's Sealyham terrier Gunside Babs of Hollybourne: Best in Show against 2,827 entrants in the Morris and Essex Kennel Club's dog show, biggest outdoor all-breed event ever held in the U. S.; at Madison...
...means to spread happiness among the poor, but Editor Patterson took an instant dislike to Daddy Warbucks. Who, he inquired, could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused. To show this defiant upstart how unimportant his strip really was, Editor Patterson threw Daddy, Annie and all, out of one day's edition. First thing next morning the Tribune's telephone switchboard began flashing like an electric sign. By nightfall 600 readers had called to know where Annie was. Convinced, Editor Patterson reinstated her, and Daddy with her. Annie now appears...
Meanwhile Boss Guffey hurried to the White House. There he took out pencil and paper, added his votes to Pinchot's votes, threw in, for no good reason, Roland Morris' votes and was able to show the President that the Pennsylvania primaries had really been a great "liberal" victory since the total overwhelmed Reed's ballots...
...Aluminum Co. of America, still has no code. Neither has the telephone industry. The communications industry-Western Union, Postal Telegraph and other International Telephone & Telegraph units, American Telephone's telegraph business and Radio Corp.-had no code until last fortnight when, after months of wrangling, General Johnson threw the foursome a ready-made one which needed only the President's signature. Last week the telegraph and radio companies and their big customers had a last opportunity to protest against what may soon be the first code imposed by Executive order...
Paris, May 25-Shouts of "war before the end of the year in Europe" threw the Chamber of Deputies into an uproar today...